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[rlf]

Try booting -v -f

[stekkz]

Now that worked beautifully .

Now let's try to get rid of ModCD? ^^

[rlf]

OK,, the philosophy is the same as before.  ModCD has some kexts in it that it has not given to your installation.  So we're going to take all of the kexts out of ModCD and make them available to your installation by putting them in the /Extra/Extensions folder.  It will be messy in there.  But later, we will figure out which ones of those kexts are needed and get rid of the rest so it will get cleaner.  I've modified the procedure a bit to make sure I get information I want and we don't accidentally erase files we need.



1.  Find the ModCD icon on your Desktop. Double-click it. Find the Extra folder inside. Double-click it. Find Preboot.dmg and double-click it. Find the Extra folder and double-click it. Find the Extensions.mkext file and drag it to your Desktop.  The file contains a cache of all the kexts available for booting with ModCD.  We're going to extract all of those kexts and add them to the /Extra/Extensions folder.

2. Open Terminal

Type:  cd
Type:  cd Desktop
Type:  mkdir rlf
Type:  ls /Extra/Extensions > rlf/Extra.txt
Type:  sudo rm -rf /Extra/Extensions.mkext
(give password)
Type:  cp /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist rlf/
Type:  sudo kextstat -l > rlf/kexts.txt   (that is lowercase L after the dash)
Type:  sudo mkdir aa
Type:  sudo mkextunpack -d aa Extensions.mkext
Type:  sudo mv aa/* /Extra/Extensions/
Type:  sudo chown -R root:wheel /Extra/Extensions

3. Find a folder called "rlf" on the Desktop.  It contains a listing of the Extensions in Extra, a copy of one of your boot files and a copy of all the kexts being used by your system right now.  Right-click on it and select "Compress rlf".  Now there should be a file named "rlf.zip" on the Desktop.  Attach it to a posting on this forum.  To do that, on the bottom right of the page, click on "More Reply Options".  Click the "Choose File" button and find the file "rlf.zip" on the Desktop.  Once it is chosen, click the "Open" button.  Then click the "Add to Post" link.  Finally, click, "Add Reply"  

4. You should now be ready to try to boot without ModCD.  Boot -v

[stekkz]

So here's the thing, I followed all your instructions and the boot (when I do -v) gets a kernel panic, and when I boot with -v -f I get this (the last three lines):

com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
RealtekRTL81xxx.kext: NIC identified as RTL8168E/8111E (mcfg=23)

and after this it just stops with booting and it hangs on that last line.

Also attached to this reply you'll find the rlf.zip you asked for.

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[rlf]

Well, there is nothing there to indicate the problem.  Can I have overnight to look at the data you sent me and make a recommendation?  I know you're anxious to move forward.

[stekkz]

Yeah, sure no problem ^^! I am already very grateful for your help!

[rlf]

Can you boot with ModCD?

[stekkz]

Yeah, that's still possible

[rlf]

Boot with ModCD.

Go to /Extra/Extensions and delete PostbootMounter.kext

Then see if you can boot without ModCD

[stekkz]

Nope, I still get the same result after deleting PostbootMounter.kext

[rlf]

Boot with ModCD

Download qqq.zip

Unzip it and put it on your Desktop

Open Terminal

Type:  cd
Type:  cd Desktop/qqq
Type:  sudo mv com.apple.Boot.plist SMBios.plist /Extra/
(give password)
Type:  sudo ./cleanit

Now, on the Desktop should be a folder named "qwerty" with a bunch of kexts in it.

And, /Extra/Extensions should have about 10 kexts in it.

Try to boot without ModCD -v


 qqq.zip   3.06K   2 downloads

[stekkz]

It automatically reboots without even booting completely. doesn't matter if I use -v or -v -f

+ in /Extra/Extensions I have 16 kexts

[rlf]

OK, we'll try cleaning /Extra/Extensions of everything except like 4 kexts.

Download "cleanit2.sh.zip" and unzip on the Desktop

Open Terminal

Type:  cd
Type:  cd Desktop
Type:  sudo ./cleanit2.sh
(give password)

Now, /Extra/Extensions should contain about 4 kexts.  There should be another folder on the Desktop called "qwerty2" containing the removed kexts.

Try booting without ModCD

boot -v -f

then try

boot -v -f -force64

 cleanit2.sh.zip   832bytes   1 downloads

[stekkz]

Well I did that all, but I can't boot with OR without ModCD now lol.

It was caused by this:

Failed to load executable for kext com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform.

And then a lot about a kernel panic.
Maybe it's my setup that is a serious problem?

[rlf]

If you remember, we replaced the AppleACPIPlatform.kext with one from 10.6.7 to avoid the [PCI Configuration begins] hang.  My script didn't touch it.  But I did make changes to two other files to help with your video and to help with the App Store when the time comes for those.  One thing we might do when we get booted is to install the latest Chameleon or Chimera.

I had another member with your same problem.  All we did was unpack the Extensions.mkext and put the kexts into the /Extra/Extensions and all was working….messy, but working.  For you, we've had all sorts of interesting problems.  If you remember, the first time right after we did that, you booted.  Then the next time you couldn't boot.

Try booting ModCD -s -f
This should give you a text-based interface and end up with a prompt of "root:".  If you can successfully boot, let me know and I'll give you some commands.

If not, we can always use ModCD to boot the OSX install DVD and use Terminal from there to make changes.  What is the name of your Mac Drive?