[OSX-Users] Re: "Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk..."

Steve Harris swh at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 21 14:00:21 BST 2011


It's to do with the partition arrangement, bootcamp has to be on one of the first 4 partitions, or something like that. Recovery and filevault now require a hidden partition, and there's limited juggling they can do without destroying filesystems. There's info about it online.

- Steve

On 2011-07-21, at 13:01, Marcus Cobden wrote:

> If you get a message along these lines "Features such as FileVault and Recovery Mode won't be available if you install Lion on this disk."
> It seems it's usually because you've got bootcamp setup on your disk.
> 
> Just thought I'd share the knowledge.
> 
> Marcus




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