iji oh Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 My install was nearly perfect, and I went and screwed it up. Using the program "OSX86 Tools" I changed the resolution in the little window that asks for 1920x1200x32@60. I thought it would only change the resolution for my gray apple startup period. Instead, I can't my rig to startup at all now. I get to the Darwin loading screen, everything appears to be loading, then the screen goes black. I completely screwed up because I can't start in safe mode either (I chose to "silent boot" using osx86 tools.) Anyway, is there a way to repair my install? Any help would appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143045-i-made-a-terrible-mistake-with-osx86-tools-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Just mash the F8 key just before the system loads and you should be able to see the darwin boot prompt. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143045-i-made-a-terrible-mistake-with-osx86-tools-help/#findComment-1015076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iji oh Posted December 27, 2008 Author Share Posted December 27, 2008 Thanks for the quick reply. I've tried pressing f8 (using my Apple wired keyboard) and nothing happens. I'm just getting an endless boot loop. What's also strange is that my Kalyway 10.5.1 DVD won't boot on the machine now. There's a message that says com.apple.plist isn't present or something to that effect. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143045-i-made-a-terrible-mistake-with-osx86-tools-help/#findComment-1015516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintenno Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 try reburning kalyway download a com.apple.boot.plist from somewhere and put it on a usb drive but burn it slower then go in to kaly and go to terminal in installer (menu-utillities-installer) then copy (cp) the file you downloaded to /Volumes/Yourdisknamehere/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ then reboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143045-i-made-a-terrible-mistake-with-osx86-tools-help/#findComment-1015522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iji oh Posted December 27, 2008 Author Share Posted December 27, 2008 try reburning kalywaydownload a com.apple.boot.plist from somewhere and put it on a usb drive but burn it slower then go in to kaly and go to terminal in installer (menu-utillities-installer) then copy (cp) the file you downloaded to /Volumes/Yourdisknamehere/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ then reboot This is a working copy of Kalyway that I've used for other installs. I think the problem here is two-fold: None of the DVDs I have (XP, Ubuntu, Kaly, JAS 10.4.8) are booting this machine at the moment. I must have a bios setting set incorrectly. By the way, my dvd unit, which is SATA, doesn't seem to have jumpers that I can manipulate to make it a boot drive. The second problem is that I originally installed this installation of Leopard using a different motherboard. I then bought a new motherboard and simply swapped them. The new Intel board worked perfectly fine in place of the old Gigabyte board---that is until I decided to experiment with OSX86 Tools. Question: Can I link the harddrive to another Mac via usb, find the plist, edit it somehow removing the information I put in (or better yet, starting with a fresh plist???) and then place it back in it's home safely? Any direction you might provide for doing that would be greatly appreciated guys. Thanks again for bearing with me. PS... I'm current downloading a version of iDeneb v1.3, but I'm worried that it won't be able to boot the system either... What could be the problem here? Something's really wrong when XP or even a Ubuntu live CD doesn't fully boot. Both CDs got the point of "loading kernel" and failed to boot further. Thanks again to all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143045-i-made-a-terrible-mistake-with-osx86-tools-help/#findComment-1016444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhyguy Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Osx Tools has the graphics thing written wrong use either 1920x1200x32 or 1920x1200@60 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143045-i-made-a-terrible-mistake-with-osx86-tools-help/#findComment-1016481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iji oh Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 Problem solved. It was so easy, I'm almost embarrassed that I posted the questions here. What I did was... I opened up my rig, disconnected the harddrive from the mobo, attached my handy SATA-to-USB connector to the HD and then to my girlfriend's PowerBook. Once the drive showed up on her desktop, I located my com.apple.Boot.plist, copied it to her desktop, edited it--taking out "graphics mode" lines and other text I added erroneously with OSX86 Tools... I then copied the file back into its resting place in my SystemConfiguration folder, and the rest is history. Everything's up and running again. Thanks for all the help everyone... What remains now is a problem that no dvd would boot my system--not XP, not Ubuntu live. What's that all about? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143045-i-made-a-terrible-mistake-with-osx86-tools-help/#findComment-1016776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drfrag Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 What remains now is a problem that no dvd would boot my system--not XP, not Ubuntu live. What's that all about? If you have a working DVD drive, than you should change boot priorities on you BIOS, making your computer look first for your DVD drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143045-i-made-a-terrible-mistake-with-osx86-tools-help/#findComment-1016826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iji oh Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 That's the problem, Drfrag. I DID that first, and my rig STILL wouldn't fully boot any DVDs. Could it have something to do with the fact that the DVD drive is SATA? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143045-i-made-a-terrible-mistake-with-osx86-tools-help/#findComment-1017074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drfrag Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I don't think so. I have a fully working LG DVD-RW SATA in my machine. Did you try hard reseting your BIOS or loadind setup default? Maybe you messed something important on your BIOS. Please give us more datails about what is happening. Your dvd drive try to load media than hangs up or it doesn't start? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143045-i-made-a-terrible-mistake-with-osx86-tools-help/#findComment-1018962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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