night_rider Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 My original install was Kalyway 10.5.1 I believe. I've upgraded to 10.5.4 over the past few months. The only issue I had was that my most recent upgrade screwed with my QE/CI. Other than that running fine since January or so. Immediately prior to being unable to boot I took three updates in Software Updates. I'm trying to remember but they were QuickTime and two others; maybe a Java update. They were not the 10.5.5 system update. Oh I believe the other was a Security Update. Anyway after I reboot from the update I'm unable to reach the login screen. I get the white Apple and eventually the Apple hourglass equivalent stops moving. I've tried booting -v, -x -f, and -s. It shows that it's freezing somewhere after the NTP daemon loads but my reading leads me to believe that is not the issue and it's actually a kext loading after the NTP daemon that's freezing the system. I'd sure appreciate some helpful suggestion where to go from here. I have a project that must be completed by Saturday and I can't boot except into Vista. It's a video project and I'd rather use the Mac. If I can't fix it in the next day or so I'm going to overwrite a new distribution. In advance, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomazzzi Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 config ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
night_rider Posted September 30, 2008 Author Share Posted September 30, 2008 Are you asking for the hardware configuration? Asus P5KE Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33 GHz 4 Gb Ram 500/160 Gb SATA drives Lite On SATA DVD RW Toshiba IDE DVD-Rom GForce 7900 GS My guess is that security update wrote something that won't allow me to boot now. Appreciate any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
night_rider Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 Anyone? If not a fix, a recommended distro? When I installed this distro it was pre-Chamelion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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