matulike

Hi,

I've had to restore from Time Machine. I cant boot. I have seen many people have been able to fix this with the 'darwin' command on the iAtkos 2 disk. I dont have that particular disk, I have v1 and lots of others.

Does anyone know of another distro which can run the darwin command?

I've tried iDeneb, Kalyway 10.5.2 and ToH.

Or, another option would be getting into the OS using a DVD to boot...I'm not sure how to do that though.

Thanks.

Hi,

I'm trying to do a restore. Time Machine worked fine backing up to the other partition on my internal drive. I've reinstalled 10.5.2 on the 'primary' partition and am trying to restore from the second partition. If I run Time Machine from within OSX after booting up normally I can restore files etc. IF I boot from the DVD and try to run it to do a full restore it just hangs. The rainbow wheel thing comes up and just keeps going...

I would like to restore from a backup - is there anyway I can do it from within the OS? Or is there some reason why it wont work from the DVD??

Thanks in advance!

Hi,. I just set up my Mac on my D620 laptop (Intel Centrino Duo). All was working REALLY well with Kalyway's 10.5.2. Had everything set up, even backed up with Time Machine to be safe! I then got the 10.5.4 update, wanted to update to that, then to 10.5.5 after. I followed instructions from a thread here saying to open the terminal and type something like (sleep 1 ; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext ; done) or something along those lines (I typed it correctly at the time, just dont have that page open in front of me now - it was open on my hackintosh!)
So I did that, and then started the update. Was gonna close the terminal and deal with Dsmos.kext and then reboot...

Here's where I think it went wrong - I had just taken the mains power out to look at the battery icon and hadnt plugged it in before the update. It was only 2 mins so no way the battery ran out, but the screen went off a couple of mins into the update. I tried to get it back, the laptop wasnt asleep, but it stayed off. So I waited, gave it time to at least finish running the update, but had to hard reboot it.

Now I get the following error at boot.



Package 0 didn't get an HPET ( x10 lines)

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2EFD1B9C): "No HPETs available...CPU(s) configured incorrectly\n"@/SourceCache/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement-39/pmThread.c:100
Debugger called: <panic>
Bactrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2f0ebf08 : 0x12b0f7 (0x4581f4 0x2f0ebf3c 0x133230 0x0)
0x2f0ebf58 : 0x2efd1b9c (0x2efd4894 0x0 0xbb617cf9 0x4)
0x2f0ebfc0 : 0x19eadc (0x0 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x460fd60)
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement(9.39.0)@0x2efcb000->0x2efe4fff

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
9C7010

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/Release_I386


So, I guess I'm asking - if anyone knows what that error is, is there anything I can do to fix it?

OR

Can I restore from Time Machine if I cant get into the OS?

Would really appreciate any help, I've just spent days getting this 'just right'! Time Machine restore would be ideal, or fixing the problem but I guess Time Machine would be easier? If it's 'accessible'>?!

Many thanks in advance )

OK, so I can restore with Time Machine from the DVD ir reinstall and restore to make sure EFI is installed.

If I could fix this problem - or at least find out what caused it so I know whether to try updating again, it would be handy!

Hi,

Just to let anyone else using a Dell D620 know, I got Leopard installed using Kalyway disk, partition mbr and use EFI-mbr patch. Other than that didnt really select anything as they didnt apply. Graphics (Intel on board) working well, no networking yet tho. The WLAN is Intel, so have to see if there's a fix for that. I did have an old Broadcom WLAN card but cant find it I know they work.
I guess wired would do, but I think that's Intel too - I'll have to double check...It might be a Broadcom 57xx. Hopefully.

But I went thru loads of times, trying loads of options, and finally, mbr partitioning with EFI_mbr is the only way that's worked.

Enjoy!

I'm having troubles with Leopard on this Dell D620. Have tried formatting the whole disk, and using Acronis. 10.4.x is fine, 10.5 goes thru the installation fine but then doesnt boot.

If anyone has it working on a D620 could you let me know - and what Distro you've used please?

And if you're dual booting.

I really want Leopards installed and am happy to dedicate the drive. Just not 100% sure about EFI stuff and, well, it just doesnt seem to like this laptop. Saying that, I could only get it to work on my PC briefly - but that's got an old P4 Northwood processor...

The D620 has an Intel core Duo. On board Intel Graphics. (GMA945 I think.)

Thanks in advance.