subjekt Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Hi guys, After an awesome 4 months of perfect osx 10.5.2 on my hackintosh. i decided to update to 10.5.3 using the combo update. Hoever, about 90% into the installation, the whole system froze, something i hadnt experiended on my osx yet. This meant I could not get to install the supplied kernel before restart. Obviously, I had to restart the computer and could not boot OSX. After asking a friend, I was advised to reinstall from the kalyway DVD (not reformat as I have important client docuemtns and all my final cut work that i hadnt been able to backup). I did this, and now it just hangs at the apple logo loading screen. When restarting, I am not even given a chance to use -v or anything, it jsut boots straight to this screen and hangs there. Please please please any ideas would be greatly appreciated. As i said im having trouble running any diagnostics so i cant tell if its the kernel or some kext. Any ideas on the best way to reinstall from the kalyway dvd?# Cheers guys. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116449-kalyway-1053-crash-and-re-install-problems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonelyTV Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Wow, that really sucks! I'm not really sure what would be the best bet to fix it. My first instinct would be find some other way to back up the data and just start new. One way to do that is if you have a working Windows install on the machine to use MacDrive 7 and see if it can access the drive. Another way to access the drive would be to use Ubuntu either through a working install or the liveCD. Both ways should be able to access the drive if it's filesystem is still intact (which I'm expecting it is). Once you back it all up (and verify it works right) then do a reformat and start new. Other than that, I can't think of another way to do it unless you can gain access to verbose mode and tell us what error it's popping up. One piece of advice, ALWAYS back up your extensions when you update. This will save you a ton of headaches in the future. I always save a copy of them on a USB flash stick just in case. Of course to put them back into Os X I use one of the ways I've suggested up above to gain access to my drive. Good luck! Hope it all works out! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116449-kalyway-1053-crash-and-re-install-problems/#findComment-824433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
subjekt Posted July 18, 2008 Author Share Posted July 18, 2008 Thanks for the reply buddy. I had osx86 tools so i backed up my extensions folder to a seperate drive, and i have XP runningwith mac drive so i can acess my leo drive. If i do a fresh install (which looks to be the case) how would i restore these extensions, would i have to do this before i can boot into leopard. Cheers for your help man. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116449-kalyway-1053-crash-and-re-install-problems/#findComment-824462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonelyTV Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 If you're going to reformat and start fresh you don't need to worry about your extensions. However, the only exception to that would be if you had to patch some and in that case for you to restore them you can do one of two things. 1) After you get back into Os X you can use kext helper to install your patched extensions (or you can use Os X86 Tools it works just as well). 2) If you can't boot into Os X you can copy them over to your Os X drive (/System/Library/Extensions) and boot Os X. At the Darwin bootloader screen you'll need to use the -s flag to boot into single user mode and type this: sudo -s sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/[NAMEOFKEXT].kext sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/[NAMEOFKEXT].kext rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/Caches (You might be able to use a wildcard instead of the name of kext, I'm not too sure) Once you change the permissions, reboot and use the -f flag at boot to force Os X to recache the extensions. After that, you should be ready to go! If you have any more questions let me know! Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116449-kalyway-1053-crash-and-re-install-problems/#findComment-824494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
subjekt Posted July 18, 2008 Author Share Posted July 18, 2008 You are unbelievably helpful, kudos - its much obliged. When in single user mode, I take it i use that code for each kext i have or does that automatically tell OSX to install all those in the extensiosn folder? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116449-kalyway-1053-crash-and-re-install-problems/#findComment-824514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonelyTV Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 You have to tell them for each kext. So if you're changing permissions on the "dsmos.kext" you would do: sudo -s sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/dsmos.kext sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/dsmos.kext rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/Caches the 'rm -r /system/Library/Extensions/Caches' can be done last after you've done all the kexts. Let me know how things go! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116449-kalyway-1053-crash-and-re-install-problems/#findComment-824785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvajos Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 Hi guys, After an awesome 4 months of perfect osx 10.5.2 on my hackintosh. i decided to update to 10.5.3 using the combo update. Hoever, about 90% into the installation, the whole system froze, something i hadnt experiended on my osx yet. This meant I could not get to install the supplied kernel before restart. Obviously, I had to restart the computer and could not boot OSX. After asking a friend, I was advised to reinstall from the kalyway DVD (not reformat as I have important client docuemtns and all my final cut work that i hadnt been able to backup). I did this, and now it just hangs at the apple logo loading screen. When restarting, I am not even given a chance to use -v or anything, it jsut boots straight to this screen and hangs there. Please please please any ideas would be greatly appreciated. As i said im having trouble running any diagnostics so i cant tell if its the kernel or some kext. Any ideas on the best way to reinstall from the kalyway dvd?# Cheers guys. Subjekt, I am trying the update 10.5.3 as well. I had exactly the same problems as you described, but i was able to reboot after that following these steps: If you have an spare disk or partition create a new install (is allways good idea to have two installs, one for work and one for testing) and run the kernel update but select your messed up install as target disk, there are two options Vanilla or Chamaleon Kernel you can try one and if does not work try the other one. After each trial reboot to the messed up leo and type update -v at the boot prompt. This would give oyu access to your important files. I am still not able to make it work every time I boot I have to type update -v otherwise it will crash. Hope it helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116449-kalyway-1053-crash-and-re-install-problems/#findComment-825345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skwerl23 Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 I had the exact same thing, i got the grey "restart" screen of death (AKA Kernel Panic). i did not try update -v but i did restore 10.5.2 with almost no problems. i just did teh following 1. put in boot disk 2. Load Boot Disk 3. went to utilities -> Terminal 4. typed: (*note my hard drive is named Macintosh HD*) if your not sure what your's is, or where it is mounted you can load the system profiler and look at your ATA/SATA drive's they will tell you. thats how i found it. cd /volumes/Macintosh\ HD/ ***note the back slash "\" with a space afterwords is how you tell Terminal to include the space in the file name*** mv system/ baksys/ mv library/ baklib/ mv applications/ bakapps/ mv users/ bakusers/ ***this basically clears your system of any knowledge of its own existence, because i didnt rename these at first it didn't overwrite any "NEWER" programs which meant a crash everytime like Subjekt experienced*** 5. Reinstalled OSX like my first time. 6. Re-set it up. 7. The only problems is you lose personal preference/apperance. which is a few clicks to fix. 8. Restore all your kext's you might have, (such as video/audio/network devices) from the back up baksys/library/extensions folder. 9. restart. 10. copy all your apps from /bakapps to /applications make sure not to overwrite any, if they need updates they can do that. and your done the only program i had to re-install was adobe stuff, some of it worked, some didnt. Microsoft Office didnt even hickup. make sure you copy all your old stuff before deleting hte bak-up folders Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116449-kalyway-1053-crash-and-re-install-problems/#findComment-1128310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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