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OS X Lion: Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name) appears during installation

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Summary

During installation, OS X Lion may display the message:

"Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name)".

Products Affected

OS X Lion

Why does this message appear?

This message means the installer cannot create the Recovery HD partition on your hard disk. Recovery HD offers on-disk recovery tools, allows you to restore from Time Machine backups, reinstall OS X Lion over the Internet, or set a firmware password. Recovery HD is not needed to install and run OS X Lion, nor to access most of its capabilities and new features.

Usually, this message appears in one of two scenarios:

  • The disk you are installing Lion on is a RAID volume
    or
  • The disk has a non-standard Boot Camp partition setup, where further partitioning was performed after running Boot Camp Assistant, or the configuration that Boot Camp Assistant created was manually modified