Please Help... update from 10.5.2 --> 10.5.4

[qmice]

Dear all senior members,

 

Thanks for this forum as I have been learning to install OSX in my PC and it run very smooth for the last whole year. Recently I have an update from Apple site directly (from the software update) and my last working OS is 10.5.2. I tried the 10.5.4 combo update (from apple) and finally I can't boot in my working OS.

 

my system specs:

Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD Intel_Amd (sse2/sse3) EFI V8

CPU: Intel Q6600

Mother: Gigabyte 965P-DS4 F11

Memory: 4 Gb

Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT

HDD: Hitachi 300Gb SATA / 150Gb Hitachi SATA (Windows Vista)

Sound:Onboard

LAN: Onboard

 

Selection for booting into different OS, is to choose from BIOS selection (F12 to select disc 1 or 2)

 

I tried to boot with -x -v or -f but non of these work..

The only message I got is below:

 

Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatform Expert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/IDE1@1F,2/AppleAHCI/SECD@/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDisk

Driver/IOAHCI BlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDeviceDriver/Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 Media/IOGUIDPartitionSchedme/Untitled@2

 

BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2

Package 0 didn't get an HPET x 15 times....

 

panic (CPU0 caller 0x54c39b9c):"No HPETs available...CPU(s) configured incorrectly/n"@/sourceCache/AppleIntelCPU Power Management/AppleIntelCPUManagement -39/pmThread.C:100

Debugger called: <panic>

Backtrace, Format -Frame : Return Address (4 potiential args on stack)

0x54d53f08: 0x12b0f7 (0x4581f4 0x54d53f3c 0x133230 0x0)

0x54d53f58: 0x54c39b9c (0x54c3c894 0x0 0xb5fb1d5a 0x4)

0x54d53fc8: 0x19eadc (0x0 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x63ab2e8)

Backtrace, terminated -invalid frame pointer 0

kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):

com.apple.driver AppleCPUPowerManagement (9.39.0)

@0x54c33000 --> 0x54c4cfff

BSD process name corresponding to current Thread: kernel_task

mac OS version 9c7010 kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version: 9.2.2 Tue Mar 4

 

 

 

Any help, advise, files or instruction will be highly appreciated.

Many thanks.....

[mac_maestro]

Hopefully you have a backup of your last working system that you can go back to. Otherwise, you could try re-installing 10.5.2 on your existing drive (if you have important files, you could install without formatting and hopefully be able to recover your files. Otherwise, formatting is your best bet).

10.5.3 was a pretty big update, and rarely seems to work through apple's update. However, once you get to 10.5.3, many have had success with the apple update to go to 10.5.4.

Best advice - if it ain't broke, don't fix it unless you really need something in the update. I had 10.5.2 humming but needed to go to .3 for the Brother printer drivers. But there's nothing spectacular in .4 that I need so I'm sticking with .3 for now.

And, of course, always have a backup of your working system. I use an external USB drive to try out new installs and updates, and if they work right, I clone them to my internal drive.

Best of luck.

[qmice]

Hopefully you have a backup of your last working system that you can go back to. Otherwise, you could try re-installing 10.5.2 on your existing drive (if you have important files, you could install without formatting and hopefully be able to recover your files. Otherwise, formatting is your best bet).

10.5.3 was a pretty big update, and rarely seems to work through apple's update. However, once you get to 10.5.3, many have had success with the apple update to go to 10.5.4.

Best advice - if it ain't broke, don't fix it unless you really need something in the update. I had 10.5.2 humming but needed to go to .3 for the Brother printer drivers. But there's nothing spectacular in .4 that I need so I'm sticking with .3 for now.

And, of course, always have a backup of your working system. I use an external USB drive to try out new installs and updates, and if they work right, I clone them to my internal drive.

Best of luck.

 

 

Thanks for your advise, I am still leave it untouch as I do have some important data inside. Don't have a backup of my working system (unfortunately !)

I guess the worst to get back my files is to unplug the whole hard-drive and put it inside an external case and hook it up with my iMac, so that I can get back all my data.

 

I was wondering, if i try to reinstall to 10.5.2 (as you said, without reformat the HD); without patching everything and straightly install the combo fix from that point.. may be I should give it a try...

[quis]

I happened to saw a guide when I was googleing some info about Leopard.

Check it out.

 

http://cocoatree.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/...y-1051-to-1054/