Hi it seems my brilliant friend has succesfully screwed his hackintosh system which i had built for hmi!

anyways guys the deal is, when i start up the system, after the white screen apple logo, the system just asks me to restart the comp using the power button. when i booted using the -x safe mode and checked the verify disk permissions, it is just showing me a list of warnings of a lot of files which cannot be repaired. if you guys have any solution for this please let me know. is there any way to repair those permissions by say using the kalyway installation disk, or should just finally remover everything and reinstall os x.. help will be appreciated.


My best guess is that the critical system files have been damaged and i have absolutely no idea how the hell did he manage to do it.. since my system which is similar (except a bit more ram!) is working flawlessly without any problem.


The System Config is

Kalyway 10.5.2 - upgraded to 10.5.4

Intel core 2 quad 2.4 ghz

Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P Rev 2.0 Motherboard

Transcend 2GB 800 MHz DDR2 Ram

Seagate Barracuda 300 Gb SATA Hdd

Zebronics 7300GT 512 Mb Graphics card

Sound like you have to reinstall the whole system if you are unable to start with -x

Hi, i am able to boot using the safe mode....

when i used disk utility and check disk permissions, i got all the warnings... just wanted to clarify that.

Its only that the normal boot is not taking place, it just asks me to restart the system after the white screen with apple logo is there.

What files are not reparable by disk utility, and what does it say causes the crash when you boot with -v (usually the last few lines printed)? Also, just a suggestion, get your friend to spend about $100 bucks and build him a nice, cooled and quiet external hard drive for time machine backups. Then, whenever he trashes the nice OS you just installed, all you have to do (if its not a simple fix) is re-install the OS, and then import all his data, apps, etc. No worrys..

I would try running the File Permissions thing from the installation DVD.

Or try Applejack http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15667
install it in safe mode, then reboot in single user mode (-s), then type exactly (without quotes): "applejack AUTO restart"
let applejack to execute all of the tasks.
type "AUTO" instead of "auto" if you want deeply reparations.
It may works.