kalyway 10.5.3 crash and re-install problems

[subjekt]

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.

[mac_maestro]

When you boot from the install DVD, use F8 to select options, and try the -x option or the -v option, or both. That was the only way I could get the Kalyway install disk to work.

Also, if you have an external usb drive that you could use or borrow, try installing a new copy of Leopard on a partition on that disk and try and boot up from there. Then you should be able to at least copy the files from the first disk. Then try trashing that system folder and reinstalling. Or else get the usb working with all your files on it, then erase and clone to the original disk from the usb (I use Hatchery_H1 , it's free, fast and works great.) You also might want to grab a copy of osx86 tools, which is great for reinstalling boot loaders after you clone a disk.

Best of luck