Cannot startup anymore

[hockeyman96]

I have been running 10.5.2 for a while and everything has been working fine. I was working on my mac and shut down. When I restarted, I got the black screen that said I need to restart my machine. Here is a screenshot of verbose mode. (I apologize for the horrible image, hopefully someone can read it)

 

Thanks for your help.

 

[Tader]

I have been running 10.5.2 for a while and everything has been working fine. I was working on my mac and shut down. When I restarted, I got the black screen that said I need to restart my machine. Here is a screenshot of verbose mode. (I apologize for the horrible image, hopefully someone can read it)Thanks for your help.

 

Did you try to install the 10.5.3 update?

Fix your system by booting from an install DVD and use the terminal to remove some stuff from your system.

 

rm -f /Volumes/TYPEYOURHDNAMEHERE/System/Extensions.*
rm -rf /Volumes/TYPEYOURHDNAMEHERE/System/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
rm -rf /Volumes/TYPEYOURHDNAMEHERE/System/InstallAtStartup

 

Then when you boot normally after this it _should_ work again.

 

To update to 10.5.3 follow these http://netkas.org/?p=50 instructions or use my script http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=107468.

 

Ah, and if after this you see the login dialog but you can't seem to login, then open two ssh sessions to your computer from an other system.

 

In the first ssh session do:

sudo -s
while sleep 1
do	 
rm -rvf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext 
done

 

In the second ssh session do:

 
sudo -s 
softwareupdate -i MacOSXUpd10.5.3-10.5.3 
cat /System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1 |sed "s/Dont\ Steal\ Mac\ OS\ X/dsmos/g" > /System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1.new 
mv /System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1.new /System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1 
chmod a+x /System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1 
reboot

 

Does anyone know how to restore login without successfully installing the 10.5.3 update?

[hockeyman96]

No I was waiting for some more feedback on 10.5.3 and was going to use Kalyway's update. I'll give this a shot and let you know what happens. Thanks

[hockeyman96]

I tried the codes in Terminal but it still will not start up. Do I just enter those line exactly as they appear? Is there something that I need to type before I put those lines in? I did it twice just to make sure that I typed it correctly and both times I got the gray and black screen saying I need to restart.

[Tomcat5k]

same problem here... I am so mad at myself for doing the apple update instead of the Kalyway combo!

 

I get a grey screen "You need to restart..." prompt. Not sure what to do.

[Tader]

I tried the codes in Terminal but it still will not start up. Do I just enter those line exactly as they appear? Is there something that I need to type before I put those lines in? I did it twice just to make sure that I typed it correctly and both times I got the gray and black screen saying I need to restart.

 

If you still have this problem:

 

Please try to boot in verbose mode (kernel flag -v) and try to find out what is going wrong? Kernel panic? Unable to find rootfilesystem? Etc...

 

Do you use Netkas' pc_efi bootloader? Did you use a vanilla kernel?

If not, you may need to replace the kernel installed by the 10.5.3 update by a kernel you know that works.

 

Did you have to use some special extensions in order to boot?

If so, you may have to restore those extensions, they may have been replaced by incompatible versions from the 10.5.3 update.

 

Good luck!