this version of Mac ox X 10.7 is not compatible with my comp

[crazyjuice]

i need to know do can i download lion from MAS using SL 32 bit or i need SL running in 64 bit ?

 

[th3g00g]

This is driving me insane and is obviously affecting a fair few out there because more people have looked at this post than have looked at the guide to install. Tony if you have a fix for this......a fair few would be grateful including an australian up at 5.15am trying to get this to install.

Thanks

 

[Clooney]

Hey guys, I did a couple of things and got it to work - not sure what fixed it.

First off, I didn't have the newest Chimera bootloader installed. Did that.

Secondly, I repaired the disk permissions on my HD.

Restarted, and now it lets me download it!

This solved it for me as well.

Success! Worked for me as well.

Used the latest multibeast version to update to the Chimera bootloader, reinstalled smbios.list (3.1) and repaired premissions (multibeast - system utilities). voilà

This WORKED!

Thanks gang!

 

[JellyUK]

Hey guys, I did a couple of things and got it to work - not sure what fixed it.

First off, I didn't have the newest Chimera bootloader installed. Did that.

Secondly, I repaired the disk permissions on my HD.

Restarted, and now it lets me download it!

Worked for me as well, downloading now

 

[mnflojte]

Make sure to install the latest Chimera bootloader. I was afraid to install at first thinking it may mess up Snow Leopard, but after trying everything else, installed Chimera. After a reboot I was able to download Lion without any issues.

Installed great...even after power outage with 8 minutes left to install!!! I thought my system was toast. I booted into installer partition again, let Lion do it's thing and everything is up and running. I have a feeling if that happened in Windows, it wouldn't have turned out so well!

 

[krys]

it worked ...

the key is to update chimera!

 

[tekkie]

Hey guys, I did a couple of things and got it to work - not sure what fixed it.

First off, I didn't have the newest Chimera bootloader installed. Did that.

Secondly, I repaired the disk permissions on my HD.

Restarted, and now it lets me download it!

worked for me also ! thanks !

 

[vitaaeterna]

The Chimera update didn't help... in the terminal i got this message:

Last login: Thu Jun 30 18:57:17 on console
/Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/Install\ Mac\ OS\ X\ Lion.app/Contents/MacOS/Install\ Mac\ OS\ X\ Lion ; exit;
Chris-Brunners-Mac:~ Chris$ /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/Install\ Mac\ OS\ X\ Lion.app/Contents/MacOS/Install\ Mac\ OS\ X\ Lion ; exit;
2011-07-21 01:46:56.470 Install Mac OS X Lion[271:903] Error loading /Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/PlugIns/IACoreStorage.IABundle/Contents/MacOS/IACoreStorage: dlopen(/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/PlugIns/IACoreStorage.IABundle/Contents/MacOS/IACoreStorage, 265): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libcsfde.dylib
Referenced from: /Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/PlugIns/IACoreStorage.IABundle/Contents/MacOS/IACoreStorage
Reason: image not found
2011-07-21 01:46:56.777 Install Mac OS X Lion[271:903] Warning: NSTableView/NSOutlineView variable row height code has detected re-entry. Avoiding a crash....

 

[bwhinnen]

You need to make sure that your smbios.plist has a valid SMBoardproduct key in there. The installer will check this to determine if Lion is able to be installed. I had this issue with my Dell Laptop until I put that key in with the correct SMboardproduct key pair for the MacBookPro I was emulating.

And for those semantics about GM versus retail, the GM is retail so all updates will work as per normal, that is how developers do it.

But I re-iterate everyones comments, spend the $30 and get the update from the app store it is that easy, just like buying the SL install DVD we all did!

Cheers

 

[DoctorWho]

You need to make sure that your smbios.plist has a valid SMBoardproduct key in there. The installer will check this to determine if Lion is able to be installed. I had this issue with my Dell Laptop until I put that key in with the correct SMboardproduct key pair for the MacBookPro I was emulating.

And for those semantics about GM versus retail, the GM is retail so all updates will work as per normal, that is how developers do it.

But I re-iterate everyones comments, spend the $30 and get the update from the app store it is that easy, just like buying the SL install DVD we all did!

Cheers

What does a valid SMBoardproduct key look like?

I installed the latest version of Chimera (v. 1.4.1 r877) and I selected Mac Pro 3,1 and checked the Systems Utilities, and I still can't download Lion from the MAS.

My smbios.plist looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>SMfamily</key>
<string>Mac Pro</string>
<key>SMproductname</key>
<string>MacPro3,1</string>
<key>SMboardproduct</key>
<string>Mac-F42C88C8</string>
<key>SMserial</key>
<string>G88451235J4</string>
<key>SMbiosversion</key>
<string>MultiBeast.tonymacx86.com</string>
</dict>
</plist>