Start up after installing lion

Hi After installing mac osx lion on my macbook pro, when i start up i only get the grey screen and the apple logo.
I have tried safe boot, but that has not worked.
Any ideas.
Many thanks
Simon

I have the same issue... Did you solve this? I have restore to SL like 5 times using time machine.

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After installing Lion I get this error message when starting and getting to the desktop:
"You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button untilnit turns off, then press the power button again."
Starting in safe mode works fine.

That could be the wording presented by 10.7 when a kernel panic occurs.
If so, consider first the possibility of an issue with third party software or hardware.

Starting mail after installing Lion

Hi,
I installed Lion on my MacbookPro (2008) yesterday. Everything is working fine, except mail. When i start mail, it says (ranslated from nowegian): "Mail needs to organize he database, press continue". When i press continue it says: "Transfering data". Then everything freezes. Solutions anyone?

Problem Solved, I'll put it down to operator error.
After checking out the Preferences for Mail and for that one particular email address I found that the password had one too many digits so I reentered the password and it worked just fine.
Don't ask me how come the extra digit as I haven't had any reason to go into Mail Preferences for months and all of the addresses were working fine until after loading Lion.

Cannot start iTunes after installing Lion

I installed Lion Mac OSx, then I started iTunes.
It didn' work, an error message appeared asking me to check whether this version of iTunes works on this vesion of Mac OS. As well, the message asked me to get the latest iTunes and Mac OS update, which I did.
But the same message appears again.
I totally removed iTunes and re-installed it, but nothing new.
Please help.

you can't install XP on new 2011 Macs.
Boot Camp 4.0 doesn't include drivers, that does not mean you can't install XP.
Boot Camp 4 Lion Installation & Setup Guide (PDF)
While Boot Camp 4.0 will run in eitherSnow Leopard or Lion, it is a requirement for setting up new Windows installations in Lion even though existing Boot Camp 3 installations will continue to work in Lion if you upgrade your systems. What this means is that if you have an existing Windows XP or Vista installation when you upgrade to Lion then Boot Camp will still work, but you will not be able to upgrade it to version 4 or later.
Boot Camp 4 requires Windows 7 or later | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews
You don't NEED new 4.0 drivers, that is settled.
There is one sentence in the above article that needs to be confirmed, I highly doubt the accuracy:
if you decide to set up a dual-boot environment for Windows from a Lion installation then you will need to have Windows 7 or later, as your older XP or Vista discs will not work.
The only way Lion can allow XP to boot if it was there before, but not allow installing, would have to be the GPT partition.
Block = prevent = "cannot install" IS a form of blocking and preventing.
So Apple does block.
OP:
My iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) or iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010) displays a black screen during installation of Microsoft Windows 7 using the Boot Camp Assistant. How do I fix it?
The Windows 7 installer does not include required graphics or Bluetooth drivers for this computer. To obtain the necessary drivers and resolve the issue, see this article.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3986

IPhoto cannot start after installing Lion

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Process:         iPhoto [2680]
Path:            /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:      com.apple.iPhoto
Version:         9.1.5 (9.1.5)
Build Info:      iPhotoProject-6150000~1
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [149]
Date/Time:       2011-07-24 08:04:31.660 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7 (11A511)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report:          39908 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           9
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   3
Anonymous UUID:                      18AE49DC-DF10-4143-94CD-27B7C9077A57
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
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dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/iLifeFaceRecognition.framework/Versions/A/iLifeFaceRecognit ion
Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Reason: image not found
Binary Images:
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0x1056000 - 0x1136fe7 org.python.python (2.6.6 - 2.6.6) <2683D847-5FC7-3F47-816E-D1CB71594F4F> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python
0x1181000 - 0x11aafff com.apple.iPhoto.Tessera (1.1 - 48.10) <39FACFA3-C1A1-CC57-9874-CF0E2EB0684C> /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/Tessera.framework/Versions/A/Tesse ra
0x11c3000 - 0x11eaff3 com.apple.iPhoto.Tellus (1.3 - 48.10) <BE3ADEF1-C058-3660-60C5-5AC69CD5414D> /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/Tellus.framework/Versions/A/Tellus
0x1209000 - 0x1213ff7 com.apple.iphoto.AccountConfigurationPlugin (1.1 - 1) <44FEAB1C-0E0B-7E80-82A5-5CF6287CF5DF> /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/AccountConfigurationPlugin.framewo rk/Versions/A/AccountConfigurationPlugin
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/15735275

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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?
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