Can't install Lion get the message "recovery system can't be created" -see picture of my screen

Hi!

I Have a macbook pro 13' core 2 duo 2.53Ghz and am getting the exact same reaction!

it's been a few hours since i've been trying to install lion. Download took about 2hrs and everything fine until, each time i've tried, announcing exactly "33 minutes" and popping up that screen a few minutes after a stuck "29 minutes"

Anyone has ideas?

I've seen a lot of threads and thought it might be because of that Paralell windows 7 i never use. But I even tried deleting it all and the problem persists. I'll be at the apple store tomorow and try to figure something out.

this is just not fair...

my screen:

Yet... I'm still really excited about Lion! I'm pretty sure this nightmare will be worthy after all! Thanks for helping out!

i am having the same issues

What happen if you create a ten gb partition and try install lion in the other 40 gb hd???

thanks for replying!

I currently have 70GB free out of a 250GB HD and no partition. Does that mean I should just create a 10GB partition with Disk Utility and then try to instal Lion normally again, selecting the original 240GB part ?

hello;

you need to perform a complete backup of the hard drive before you attempt to re-partition it.

if you re-partition before making a complete backup you will lose data.

this recovery partition idea was used by Apple on version 1 of the AppleTV.

It makes upgrading really difficult.

I am having the identical problem.

I had this problem and just did the install again and it worked the second time.

Of course I have no recovery partition if I should need it.

Excuse me， means you can install Lion without installing the recovery system?

Hi all, I have the same problem. I put InstallESD.dmg on a dvd and tried to install Lion from that but stopped at 29 minutes and got that f*****g screen. AAAAARGH!

Apparently so. I did.

Here's a link to a Macworld.com article that discusses it:

http://www.macworld.com/article/161088/2011/07/hands_on_lion_recovery_mode.html

have you been able to solve? I get exact same error. I'm using Parallels 6 with Windows XP on a Dual Core IMAC. Parallels wasn't much help. Directed me to Apple support./no-recovery.

I noticed in the message streams there was a response about installing without recovery feature. Did you try that?

jensen.jg@gmail.com

Found the solution: delete any partition on bootcamp.

I'm having the same issue as the original poster (on a second-generation MacBook Air); nearly identical results when I run the Lion installer. I do not have any bootcamp partitions.

For what it's worth, I have been having persistent disk trouble for the last month or two; I've had to reinstall Snow Leopard twice, reformatting the disk both times.

My partitions:

$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS lambdaori Disk 119.7 GB disk0s2

Hi there,

I'm having exactly the same problem and on-screen failure message as Rhonda 807 on my MBP (once I got to 28 very briefly) and I have run through the same rectification attempts.

Even though my disk has 24GB free, when I launch Boot Camp Assistant, click "I have the Mac OS X installation disk [...], it comes up with the message "The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned - You must have at least 10GB of free space available."

Called Apple Support and their answer was also to free up more space..... of no avail.

Hope this lead is helpful to finding a joint solution.

Robert