thechiman Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 I hope this hasn't been already asked; I did a forum search and came up with nothing so please don't berate me too much if it has. I installed Kalyway 10.5.1 on my Gigabyte G35-DS3L, Q6600, 8800GTS (G92) and everything was fine. Then like an idiot I did the apple update. During the install of the 10.5.2 from the updater, the system froze and gave me the gray error message saying I need to restart the computer. So I do and of course the same error message comes up during the apple loading screen. I boot into the Kalyway disc, re-format the drive and reinstall. The install works fine, reboot, and the same restart error message comes up. (I have 4 hard drives; one with vista which boots fine, a storage drive, and two drives with which to play around with.) So I format the other "play" drive and install the Kalyway on that. Same error. I zero out both drives (to remove the boot sector; don't know, friend told me to do this) and I still get the same error. Does anyone know what is going on? Why would the Kalyway install not work on the other "play" drive which has not been touched at all? Is there something written to the BIOS? I am very confused. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iseany Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 hey man im not sure whats up with ur drives but try formatting 1 of the with g-parted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 ya, you're pretty boned unless you can boot off another partition you had and reinstall the 10.5.2 update manually. what happened is the update installed 'appleintelcpumanager.kext' and the moment it installed itself it loaded the kext and then crashed your system. so if you have another partition or drive with OSX on it, boot off it, download the 10.5.2 update from apple and install it on your 'broken' 10.5.2 system, once you have it installed you'll have to go delete appleintelcpumanger.kext from System/Library/Extensions/ everything should work after that assuming you have pc_efi installed on your broken 10.5.2 partition (i'm not sure if kalyway uses pc_efi or not, maybe someone can chime in). if you dont have another partition to boot off, try booting in single user mode and (-s on boot), once inside osx, remount your root (mount -rw / i think), then do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUManager.kext rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext once those are removed, reboot normally and see if you can actually get inside OSX, if not you'll likely have to reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 ya, you're pretty boned. HAHA.. actually there are a lot of topics on how to recover from this. Do some googling and see. You can look at my topic here for the best way to search: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=102317 Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thechiman Posted May 9, 2008 Author Share Posted May 9, 2008 @00Diabolic thanks for the knock to the head I will do some more searching. @sg I will give that a try once I figure out what/how to do all that (I'm new to messing around with this stuff). You say that if that doesn't work however, that I'd have to re-install. The thing is, I have re-installed multiple times. Every forum I have found says just re-install Kalyway. My problem is that when I do re-install, it still won't boot. So my question is then: is there something left on the drive even after wiping it (I did a zeroing-out security erase of the drive)? Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burton3660 Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 download kalway 10.5.2 and try to restore a time machine backup (hope you have it) after that all should work fine the great thing about kalways 10.5. 2 is that it has alot of included fixes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 when you install on top of another existing installation, you have 3 options, one of them is clean and you'll want to do that, that removes everything in your system and only keeps your user files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thechiman Posted May 10, 2008 Author Share Posted May 10, 2008 Last night I did another re-install and I DID NOT customize the installation; I left it as is and just installed. The install worked fine and I was able to boot. So the problem was one of the customize packages Kalyway provides. If I have time, I'll try and figure out which one specifically. I want to do a vanilla install of my retail copy of Leopard. Thanks for the help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 if you want to go 10.5.2 you'll have to read up on how to do it using software update or find a modified 10.5.2 package that removes appleintelcpumager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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