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[trivias]

Hello,

I successfully installed 10.7 via USB stick using Chameleon. After installation I can't activate FileVault. Maybe I need a recovery partition? Can somebody help me? Thanks.

[og-phantom]

Hello,

I successfully installed 10.7 via USB stick using Chameleon. After installation I can't activate FileVault. Maybe I need a recovery partition? Can somebody help me? Thanks.

Did you hit the little padlock icon in the lower left corner of the window?

[v7kF4U2HTd]

Did you hit the little padlock icon in the lower left corner of the window?

hehe, it's not related to that. lion does indeed require a special recovery partition to activate encryption. i ran into the same issue but haven't solved it yet. would be nice if anyone could shed some light on that.

[fffeee]

hehe, it's not related to that. lion does indeed require a special recovery partition to activate encryption. i ran into the same issue but haven't solved it yet. would be nice if anyone could shed some light on that.

most Lion installation methods involve stripping out the base system installer away from the rest of the Lion installation process, which also creates a 650MB "Apple_Boot" fstype partition named "Recovery HD".

On my MacBook Air I have a disklabel that looks like this:

0: GUID scheme [all the GBs!]
1: EFI (209MB)
2: Apple_HFS [my "Macintosh HD" filesystem]
3. Apple_Boot [Recovery HD]

Nobody here will know what the possible ramifications are for not having a Recovery HD filesystem on your Hac are, either.

[MTWomg]

The reason this doesn't work is because it relies on the real EFI bootloader Macs use. It encrypts your entire drive. Before the OS is started, the EFI loader asks for your password.

At least this is what it looks like on my real Mac. I haven't actually bothered to research how it works.

This won't work on hacks without some real effort from the Chameleon guys.

[v7kF4U2HTd]

The reason this doesn't work is because it relies on the real EFI bootloader Macs use. It encrypts your entire drive. Before the OS is started, the EFI loader asks for your password.

At least this is what it looks like on my real Mac. I haven't actually bothered to research how it works.

This won't work on hacks without some real effort from the Chameleon guys.

damn that was the only thing that made me really consider the upgrade

[piarullir]

Same problem here...there is a solution? an half idea?

There is a procedure for creation of recovery hd? (i've no recovery hd on my disk after installation...)