Did anyone upgrade to lion on a mac with bootcamp?

If yes, could you please share your experience?

Thank you

 

I did. But not an upgrade, I did a clean install of Lion.

With SL and Bootcamp on separate partitions, I booted using the Lion DVD (which I created) and within the Lion installer you have Disk Utility which I used to wipe and format the SL partition and proceeded to install Lion on that partition without touching the Windows partition.

Went super smooth, not a single issue.

 

After installation, do you see the bootcamp partition?

Check out this thread and the threads it points to:

Can I install Lion, and keep my Win bootcamp partition? - MacRumors Forums

Some people reported that they cannot mount the bootcamp partition anymore from within lion.

Also did you have to do anything on the windows side, such as upgrade drivers perhaps?

I don't want to erase my SL partition.

Thanks

 

I'm typing this message from Windows 7, on the machine I have Lion installed on. I can assure you it's working perfectly. No additional drivers or any software was needed, on either the Mac side or the Windows side.

But I'm not sure what you mean by what you typed in red. When I want to go to the windows side I reboot and select the Windows partition, that's how Bootcamp always worked. It's not from within Lion or SL.

FWIW, when I reboot I see 3 partitions, Lion (Macintosh HD), Windows and Recovery partition that was created by Lion.

 

Currently, in SL I can read-only access the NTFS partition (the bootcamp partition is mounted), which is kind of cool because I can transfer files from windows to osx.

It is good that you've been able to install it and it didn't affect (i.e. it didn't destroy) the bootcamp partition.

I will do the upgrade as soon as I receive my backup hdd and I will post back here.

 

I see what you mean now, and yeah the Windows drive in finder is greyed out; I can't access it for anything from within Lion. I don't ever recall trying to do that in SL either.

 

No problems with my Win 7 drive or OS here.

 

I upgraded to Lion with Windows 7 previously installed on my MBP, no issues. I can also access my bootcamp partition to copy files off of it though Lion still doesn't have the native ability to write files to NTFS. I didn't have to upgrade anything on the Windows side of things either.

So nothing really changed by upgrading to Lion. It still has the same read-only abilities for NTFS including the bootcamp partition on my hard drive.

 

No issues here, on an Early 2008 MBP15 w/ Lion and Win7 Pro x64 on a Boot Camp partition. Upgrade went smoothly, even preserved the rEFIt bootloader ( http://refit.sourceforge.net/).

Cool thing is (at least for me), rEFIt doesn't show the recovery partition, which I prefer. It will show the recovery partition if you hold Option at boot. Out of sight, out of mind. Less clutter.

 

I was a little upset about the recovery partition at first as I thought it would be like most typical new desktops/notebooks in that they reserve 20-40GB of a hard drive. I didn't want to lose 20GB+ on my already cramped 500GB hard drive (with 450GB dedicated to Mac OS X). Then I saw that it takes up 650MB so my initial concerns have been diminished though I still don't like the idea of having a recovery partition.

 

If it helps to ease your concerns a bit, booting to the recovery partition will allow someone to do a complete disc-less reinstall of OS X, which it will download over the internet from Apple's servers. It's a lot more robust than the typical recovery partition.

 

Yes, I upgraded to Lion with an existing Bootcamp. My Bootcamp was on a seperate drive (optibay).

No issues that I could see. I can also view my Windows7 bootcamp partition in finder.

I made CCC image backup and a Winclone backup prior to upgrading though just to be safe.

Ben

 

Just a heads up, rEFIt doesn't play well with FileVault 2 encrypted volumes. I enabled FV2 on my boot drive, and it encrypted the Mac partition just fine. The Windows/Boot Camp partition seems unaffected, I just have to hold down Option like before.

So, just an FYI if you're considering FV2. Nothing bad, just can't use rEFIt until a workaround is found.

 

Yes, I had a problem. I recently had Mac OS X Snow Leopard partition and a Bootcamp Windows 7 partition. I decided to try and upgrade to Lion via the Mac App store. After Lion was installed, I rebooted, pressed the Option key, and the two options were listed to me "Mac HD" and "Recovery HD". Once I clicked on Recovery HD, it prompted me a list of recovery options to perform, all of which I am unfamiliar with. I haven't researched this much, but I plan to for sure, since this is my work laptop and all my work is on the Windows partition.