When trying to reinstall Lion OS on new mid 2011 Macbook Air, error msg 'This version of Mac OS X 10.7 cannot be installed on this computer' comes up. What should I do to reinstall?

cool, is the .dmg something you can share with us who have dead Macbook Airs? Thanks!

I may be able to share the .DMG. Just doing more testing. I think this will only wOrk on the 128GB SSD machines due to the partitions.

Also during the recovery, the recovery partition gets locked and on restore an error appears but it doesn't stop the restore. The error is because the recovery partition is locked.

hi all

i'm looking for os x lion build 11a2063

dont have recovery hd

and can download from internet recovery error is 1006f

plz help and share lion build 11a2063

Sounds promising iDroid84. Can you provide a little more detail on the steps you followed? I have made a boot Lion USB, and installed it on my IMac, on a second partition. I just got a 256gb MBA, and was assuming I could zap it anytime, and reload from my USB. Ugh. Glad I saw this thread. Right now I am still functional, and assume I can go into recovery, and download, but I don't want to do that every time. I intend to use the MBA for development, hence want to rebuild fairly often.

So, when you can, please share your steps. Thanks a ton for figuring this out!

Mat

I'm not even sure if this will be allowed but I'm not sitting here waiting for a solution from Apple. They should have thought about this in the first place. If I have to remove it I will but these top companies should think about things like this before hand.

Thanks.

I can confirm what Alias808 reports - as of yesterday, the build you download using Recovery is 11A2063. Interestingly, though, it appears that build cannot be used to create an install usb stick or dvd using the instructions that work for 10.7 purchased through the Apple store (e.g. http://lifehacker.com/5823096/how-to-burn-your-own-lion-install-dvd-or-flash-dri ve).

I let 11A2063 download and think it was going to install to an attached drive, but interrupted the process to capture the InstallESD.dmg image. I was successful in doing so, but when I burn that image to a dvd or restore it to a usb drive, the MBA will not boot off of either media.

Ross how did you capture the InstallESD.dmg file?

Here's what I did:

- Using any mac, format a usb flash drive (at least 8 gb) as journaled extended.

- Connect the usb flash drive to your mba and boot into the recovery partition (hold cmd-R at startup).

- Choose "Reinstall Mac OS X".

- Choose to install it on the usb flash drive.

- The installer goes through two steps: 1) downloading Lion and 2) installing Lion. The progress bar will reset after it's finished downloading and when it starts installing. When it starts installing, power off the computer.

- Disconnect the usb flash drive.

- Boot back into your regular Lion partition on the mba.

- Connect the usb flash drive, and you will have access to InstallESD.dmg.

Note that this process leaves your recovery partition in a weird state - you will need to reset your pram after doing this, or it will forever keep trying to finish the install to the usb flash drive next time you boot into it.

Will give it a go.

PS sorry for everyone who wanted the DMG that I uploaded to torrent, links were removed by Apple. They better provide a solution soon.

dearidroid84

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Best regards

dearidroid84

yesterday i try to download lion from internet recovery by press alt+command+R, after 2 second have error: 1006F

today i try to download from internet recovery, after 3 minute coming error:2002f

do u have idea about new error?!!!

best regards

@Ross it works!!! I have the genuine lion build!!! going to release this version soon.

@seyed, try clearing the pram. On voodoo press and hold option, command, p and r. Let it restart twice but hold them down and try recovery again.

On voodoo I mean startup, **** iPhone changing my words! lol

i try by press alt+command+P+R

at this time after 15 minute coming error: 2002F

what is ur idea?!!!

Use disk utility to format the drive and try again.