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[Ira Aduro]

So I did something stupid and tried to activate OSX's ability to write to NTFS. Here's the steps I followed

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Run Terminal
Type "diskutil info /Volumes/volname", where volname is the name of the NTFS volume. From the output, copy the Volume UUID value to the clipboard.
Type "sudo nano /etc/fstab."
Type "UUID=111-111-111 none ntfs rw", where 111-111-111 is the UUID you copied.
Save and quit nano by typing Control-X, Y, and then Enter.
Restart your system.
I did that for the one NTFS partition I want access to from OSX. Now I get a kernel panic. I'm attaching a photo of the kernel panic. I can see it references the UUID of the partition.

I'm not sure how to undo what I did but I'm sure google will be my friend.

Is it worth trying to fix or am I better off just reinstalling Mountain Lion? I just installed Mountain Lion so I don't have anything valuable on the disk.

[artur-pt]

hello

try to use paragon ntfs for mac

good hack

[p.H]

artur-pt, on 21 September 2012 - 01:23 PM, said:

hello

try to use paragon ntfs for mac

good hack

Tuxera NTFS is also a good choice

[Ira Aduro]

I've heard those are good.

However I need to be able to boot in osx first.

When I try to boot into osx I get the kernel panic. What can I do to fix this.

[p.H]

Ira Aduro, on 21 September 2012 - 01:47 PM, said:

I've heard those are good.

However I need to be able to boot in osx first.

When I try to boot into osx I get the kernel panic. What can I do to fix this.

try booting with -x

[Ira Aduro]

Thanks, I'll try that out when I get home and report back.

btw - I've read that there's a possibility of corrupting the NTFS drive if you write to it from OSX. I'm guessing since you guys recommended Paragon and Tuxera you haven't run into that problem yourselves?

EDIT:
I thought I'd just google how to boot in -x mode but I can't seem to find instructions on how to do. Is it an option when selecting the OSX drive in Chameleon or is there another way to boot into OSX with -x mode?

EDIT 2:
Think I found it:

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Boot into safe mood -- enter the -x boot flag when on the hackintosh boot screen

[Ira Aduro]

One more question - let's say I can get into OSX. How in the world do I undo what I did?

[p.H]

Ira Aduro, on 21 September 2012 - 08:30 PM, said:

One more question - let's say I can get into OSX. How in the world do I undo what I did?

maybe try to find the setting for another ntfs driver then apply those settings to the ntfs driver you've modified

[Ira Aduro]

Got this fixed guys, thanks for the help. Booted single user and deleted something to do with com.apple.driver.Appletymcedriver - worked.