Restore Lion TM Backup w Leopard (no Recovery HD)
Hey,
I have a Time Machine Backup of my whole Lion 10.7 system upgraded from Snow Leopard that I am trying to restore to. I was doing some dual booting with Ubuntu and had changed the partition size of my Lion system. I wanted to reclaim tha original size of the HD and get rid of Ubuntu and first tried using the Recovery HD and disk utility tools there. I couldn't so I just made the drive a single partition again with the 10.6 install disk and I restored from my Time Machine backup.
The restore looks like it all goes well (takes about 4 - 5 hours to restore all files) then asks me to restart. I restart but the boot up hangs at the gray screen with the Apple logo and the spinning gray wheel. I can boot into Safe User Mode and I can move around the file system in Darwin and I see my files (and it says I have root access etc.)
What could be wrong? Let's see..... I have no Recovery HD that Lion had made anymore. Could it be because Lion uses that Recovery HD also when it's booting which Leopard doen't make and that's why I can't boot fully? In Darwin I've done the fsck -fy command and it looked like it checked everything and it said that "File System Was Modified". I also did a mount -uw and tried to exit / reboot the sytem (which it didn't) but after a forced shutdown / startup it still hangs at the bootup place mentioned above.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427 - This didn't help me much as it doesn't mention about what to do if boot hangs at the spinning wheel stage.
Hm.. what could it be? Should I fully install Snow Leopard and try to migrate files using my TM Lion Backup? That's silly or woudln't work because it's a newer OS right? Oh, and I am trying to restore onto the HD that created the TM Backup. So, shouldn't be an issue there.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help in advance
Brian
MacBook Pro 13" 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 260GB, 4GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6.3), MacBook Pro 15" 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, 120GB, 2GB RAM