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[supertom]

Hi all,

Did something really dumb. Accidentally installed NBI 8.3 on my Macbook and cancelled it halfway and tried to force an eject. When I rebooted I got a kernel panic. I can't boot into safe mode. I take it it's hosed, and I should just reformat and reinstall OSX?

[supertom]

supertom, on Apr 4 2011, 10:25 AM, said:

Hi all,

Did something really dumb. Accidentally installed NBI 8.3 on my Macbook and cancelled it halfway and tried to force an eject. When I rebooted I got a kernel panic. I can't boot into safe mode. I take it it's hosed, and I should just reformat and reinstall OSX?

Also, I'm getting the "hibernate image is too old" thing but I can't get out of it.  If I try to boot to safe mode it goes straight to it.  No chance to type in anything.

[supertom]

Here's a screenshot:

Please help, thank you!

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[AlainTox714]

supertom, on Apr 5 2011, 12:18 AM, said:

Here's a screenshot:

Please help, thank you!

GUID SOLUTION:

1) Boot your mac with an OS X Install DVD (doesn’t matter which version, whatever is installed on your system would be best).

2) Start Disk Utility

3) Select the OS X HDD/SSD that you screwed up (not specific partition)

4) Go to the Partition tab

5) Grab the lower right corner of your key partition and resize it a little bit (no matter how much/little you resize it as long as you change the partition size)

6) Click Apply. Relax, this will NOT erase your HDD/SSD, it only rewrites your GUID partition data that will fix your HDD/SSD.

7) Quit the Disk Utility and reboot.

8) Enjoy your restored Mac that should now boot normally!

Hope this help.

[supertom]

Hi Alain,

Thanks!  I will try that tonight.

[supertom]

OK, I tried that and it fixed it!  Thanks Alain.  Unfortunately my wife accidentally ran the update and now it's stuck at the apple logo boot screen.  Time to look up NBI's.