How to: Build a Hackintosh Mac Mini – StumbleUpon. So if you don’t mind building your own this might work for you. I haven’t featured one of these in a long time since they weren’t compelling. However due to the economy I could see this being an attractive option to some.
I have the opposite problem where I can’t startup sometimes and get a grey screen that lasts until I hit the power button. Still this is good to know.
Make sure you’ve closed all open windows and applications that you may be using. Also, go into System Preferences, General, and remove the check from the box that states: “Restore windows when quitting…” See if that helps.
Also, the first couple of times when shutting Lion down (especially if have open applications or windows) will take longer.
via MBPro won’t shut down after Lion upgrade – Mac-Forums.com.
raspberryaddiction said the solution.
There is a simple fix. Shut down the mac; unplug for 15 seconds. Plug in; wait 5 seconds. Then press the power button once. That should reset the SMU and fix the isight. It did for me.
via Built in iSight not working after Lion…: Apple Support Communities.
I had a friend who has a new MacBook Pro and called me this morning panicked. His MBP started up and said “Could not find a bootable drive” or something like that. I had him restart and hold down the option button and then select his boot drive. Then he went to the System Preferences > Startup Disk and selected his drive. He shut down the computer. Then started it up and it started normally. He had upgraded from the most updated Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
I am going to help him burn a USB drive and do a clean install. It was a negative experience and one that I don’t recall any other version of Mac OS doing. The Mac OS has some great features, but when there is a bug, there is a show stopping bug. Apple doesn’t go halfway with features or with issues.
Thanks Silvertoe!
The fix. . .
The problem is a Permissions problem. All you have to do is:
1. Right click on the root /Library Folder and selct ‘Get Info’
2. Unlock the pad lock in the lower right hand corner.
3. Click on the + symbol to add a user.
4. When prompt add the ‘root user’.
5. Give the root user Read/Write privaledges.
6. Lock the pad lock and open Preview.
This worked for me and I hope it works for you to!
via After upgraded to LION, Preview.app and…: Apple Support Communities.
