Just as an FYI, I actually tried everything you mentioned here and nothing worked. Lion Disk Maker gave me an error when trying to generate one version of a Lion boot disk, successfully created another, but unfortunately, that boot disk would not install Lion. In fact, any boot disk I successfully created always forced me to install Mountain Lion.
I even went so far as to expose the Recovery partition and edit one of the plist files by hand to make the system think I had 10.7 and still no dice. I chose not to continue on that path to completely remove the Recovery partition as this is a work computer which I rely on so chose not to take the chance of having it not know at all which OS it would allow to install and also have no Recovery OS left. I suspect though, that this option would have finally allowed me to install Lion. I chose instead to go to the Apple Store and see what they could do. they as always, were awesome and were able to install Lion from their own network copy so at last, I have an external SSD running a completely clean install of Lion 10.7.5 with a Recovery partition which will also allow me to install Lion again in future, should I need! Woohoo! :) The first thing I plan to do is to image this drive as well as the Recovery partition so this craziness never happens again! lol! :) I just thought I'd update y'all on this situation and thank you for all your replies! You rock! Smiles, Cara :) n On Jun 29, 2013, at 5:20 AM, TheOreoMonster <monkeypushe...@gmail.com> wrote: how did you make the lion bootable installer? did you just copy the lion .dmg or .pkg file to the external then booted from it? If so try using the lion disc maker to make a lion bootable installer. If you have an 8 or 16 gb flash drive laying round, I'd suggest using that for your boot drive. then install to one of the SSD drives. On Jun 29, 2013, at 6:49 AM, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> wrote: > Well, I've gotten the machine to boot from the Lion installer on the external > SSD, and see the utilities and such but when I select restore OSX, it insists > on installing mountain Lion and not lion, even though the installer is the > Lion installer. OMG! this is annoying! > > When I simply run the Lion installer from another drive, I get an error which > says the installer can't find the data it needs to install the OS. All data > is exactly where it is supposed to be as I've not changed the installer > package at all. Go figure. This is getting absurd! > > Any tips anyone might offer me? > > Thanks so much, y'all rock! > > Smiles, > > Cara :) > On Jun 28, 2013, at 11:38 PM, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> wrote: > > Hi There, I actually had created a bootable copy on one SSD but the machine > wouldn't boot into it. > > I couldn't find my installer from this machine so used an older one from > another Mac. I've just gone into a backup of this machine from last year and > have found a Lion installer from this machine specifically so am now creating > a bootable install with that one. So we'll see what happens now. > > Wish me luck! :) > > Thanks, > > Cara :) > On Jun 28, 2013, at 10:26 PM, TheOreoMonster <monkeypushe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am writing this on a 2011 mac book air that came stock with lion. So not > sure why it won't boot into lion. Are you having issues with the install of > lion or is it installed but won't boot into lion? What you want to do in > theory in deed is doable. > > On Jun 29, 2013, at 1:04 AM, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I just purchased a couple of SSDs which I've mounted in USB enclosures to >> use with Pro Tools. >> >> My plan was to install Lion on one drive along with PT and use the other SSD >> to work with sessions. >> >> The issue I'm having is this; >> >> Since the Macbook Air I'm using is late 2011, it seems not to want to boot >> into Lion. >> >> I'd thought of purchasing a new Mac to run PT but that was before I'd >> learned of the accessibility issues with PT 11. So now that I have PT 10 I'm >> trying to prepare a Lion environment in which to run it. While I'm not >> opposed to purchasing another machine specifically for Pro Tools, I would >> prefer buying a new one and not old tech. >> >> Is there something I'm missing here? does anyone have any suggestions on how >> to get a copy of Lion on to an SSD? I know how to create a bootable drive >> but as I say, it seems this Air will not run Lion so not sure what to do >> here. >> >> Thanks so much! >> >> Smiles, >> >> Cara :) >> >> --- >> View my Online Portfolio at: >> >> http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn >> >> Follow me on Twitter! >> >> https://twitter.com/ModelCara >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > > http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn > > Follow me on Twitter! > > https://twitter.com/ModelCara > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > > http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn > > Follow me on Twitter! > > https://twitter.com/ModelCara > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. 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