bad kexts and nothing I do helps

[mrcardboard]

I have a P5W DH Deluxe with Asus EN 7300GT... I HAD everything working on 10.5.4 except QE so I was trying to find some kexts that would help the situation.. Well needless to say the ones I tried didn't help at all. I can only boot to single user but I am not very advanced when it comes to Bash and I don't know how to take them out and replace them with my backups that are on another drive in my Computer. Any help with the bash commands I would need to use to get up and running again would be greatly appreciated..

 

ohh i used kalyway 10.5.1 then upgraded from there.

 

Thanks

[thegodfaza]

To remove files

rm -rf file.kext

Be warned that this command is unforgiving. If you mistype then you could loose your info.

 

To move files

mv -f file1 file2

 

To copy files

cp -R file1 file2

 

To change Directories

cd directory

 

To list the files and directories of the folder your currently in

ls

 

EDIT: Forgot about the permissions

 

To repair file permissions

chmod -R 755 file.kext

then

chown -R root:wheel file.kext

 

Then you have to reload your kexts. You can either boot with the -f flag or you can delete /system/library/extensions.kextcache.

[Riley Freeman]

I can help you some of the way. I messed up a fair few times with replacing kexts and with quiet boot/no timeout set I had to boot into the leopard install disk and run terminal from there to fix things.

 

To change to the directory containing the bad kext:

 

cd /System/Library/Extensions

 

To view the contents:

 

ls

 

To delete a rogue kext:

 

rm -rf itsallmyfault.kext

 

You should also delete the extensions.mkext in /System/Library too.

 

To restore the good kext:

 

cp -r "/Volumes/Other Drive Label/Backup/original.kext" /System/Library/Extensions

 

I don't know how to repair permissions yet though.

[mrcardboard]

Thanks!!.. The only problem I still need to work out is how to mount my other drive. It is called Storage in my Volumes Directory but I don't know how to mount it properly.. If i can get that down I should be good to go

[thegodfaza]

If it's in your storage directory then it's already mounted. Else, if you want to mount something

sudo mount -t file_system_type /dev/device /path_to_mount_point

Example:

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /Volumes/Windows