Lion upgrade with a Boot Camp install?

keogh · 16 Sep 2011 at 12:57

Howdy guys,

Quick one, I'm still on Snow Leopard at the moment, was leaving Lion a bit to get a few updates. I plan on upgrading over the weekend, but I'm sure I read some where that it can mess up your Boot Camp install.

I have a Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit Boot Camp install on my iMac as well that I can't afford to screw up at the moment (as I need it for certain stuff right now) as I have no time to reinstall that.

So has anyone with a Boot Camp install on SL upgraded to Lion, if so any problems? Or was it flawless?

Cheers

artaxerxes · 16 Sep 2011 at 13:10

Lion no longer supports XP - thats about the only issue I have heard with BootCamp Lion-wise.

I would have course WinClone the Win partition. But why bother updating if you have critical software on your Mac? Step back.

keogh · 16 Sep 2011 at 13:34

artaxerxes said:
Lion no longer supports XP - thats about the only issue I have heard with BootCamp Lion-wise.

I would have course WinClone the Win partition. But why bother updating if you have critical software on your Mac? Step back.

I'm getting anxious for Lion to be on my Mac, and I will always have important software on my Mac so there would never be a right time then. But I suppose I should upgrade when I have more time to fix any issues I suppose.

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Sep 2011 at 13:46

If you can't afford it to screw up don't do it just yet until you have time to re-install if needed.

keogh · 16 Sep 2011 at 16:15

Well for now let's forget I have important stuff, those who have done the above, any problems? Time or no time, I'd rather not have to reinstall!

artaxerxes · 19 Sep 2011 at 15:49

if you must, you must, and I certainly did it day 1.

Just install Lion on an external disk - so you can retreat to your old setup in the event of issues.

Rameses · 19 Sep 2011 at 15:53

No problems here, I upgraded from SL with Win7 bootcamp to LION with no issue here.

PS. artaxerxes your sig is too big.

pingwing · 19 Sep 2011 at 16:10

I had a slight issue with w7 when I went to Lion (with my mbp track pad) but that was fixed as soon as I ran the apple updater for w7.

Now there's no problems at all

durbs · 20 Sep 2011 at 23:02

I upgraded mine with a Bootcamp partition no problem.

Don't see why it would affect the existing Win partition? You're only upgrading the Mac partition, not touching W7.