MacBook Pro won't reboot after Lion update

I have updated my new MacBook Pro (2.3GHz I7 15"), and everything seemed to be working fine.  Something was chugging away at the system resources when I was away from my computer and when I came back, I decided to reboot the system.
Now all that will happen is boot up to the Apple logo and spin the little grey circle, for an hour!  I don't know what to do, help my computer is useless!
I have booted into the recovery partition and repaired permissions, but it did not help.  Anyone have any ideas?

alan81 wrote:
After installing Lion on a 2007 MacBook pro, it won't reboot.  Just gets to the gray screen with the spinning wheel.  Have tried re-installing and disk repair to no avail.  Anyone else figured out how to fix?
Lion only runs on Intel based systems which have to be core2duo. with a minimum of 2GB RAM.
If these is given on your system, in most cases it comes from running old PPC-Applications which are not longer supported since Lion.
Try to start your MB in "Safe Mode" by holding option key (alt) imediately after first chime and disable / delete this applications.
Lupunus

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