O.G Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 I have a Dell Dimension e510, or a 5150n. I have installed os x unsuccessfully about 13 times. My latest installation went great, and was working for 4 days!!!!! (thats alot 4 me) But then i wanted quartz extreme. So i went into efistudio, and added nVidia Gforce 7300 LE 256 mb as it says to do in this guide. I restarted my computer. I got a boot hang, so i shut it off, and on again with -v And it hung at some error Then i tried -v -x It hung at 'aric's macbook pro: starting" same thing at -v -x -F I repaired permissions, checked te disk, used 'applejack', everything! But the only thing to do would be to undo whatever EFIstudio wrote into apple.boot.plist Is there a way to do this? Should i use macdrive? PS Great site! You guys are a great help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158812-after-using-efistudio-boot-hang/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
O.G Posted March 23, 2009 Author Share Posted March 23, 2009 Ok solved I installed the demo of MacDrive 7, and navigated to /Library/Preferences/System Configuration/ There was com.apple.Boot.plist and a com.apple.Boot.plist.backup All i did was simply remove com.apple.Boot.plist and renamed the backup to com.apple.Boot.plist and replaced the too! Much simpler then fixing a XP or Vista, thats for sure. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158812-after-using-efistudio-boot-hang/#findComment-1113931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searay_X Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Ok solved I installed the demo of MacDrive 7, and navigated to /Library/Preferences/System Configuration/ There was com.apple.Boot.plist and a com.apple.Boot.plist.backup All i did was simply remove com.apple.Boot.plist and renamed the backup to com.apple.Boot.plist and replaced the too! Much simpler then fixing a XP or Vista, thats for sure. For future reference simply boot with the -s flag then after the system loads simply type /sbin/mount -uw / at the prompt. com.apple.Boot.plist is not processed in a single user boot mode. You can then just use nano to edit com.apple.Boot.plist or the rm command to remove the bad one and the cp command to copy the good one by doing the following; "cp com.apple.Boot.plist.backup com.apple.Boot.plist" this will preserve the workig backup. Helpful hint: this is also useful for removing nasty kext's, startup items and editing/deleting/moving other files if you should ever have an issue with something you install. It would be a good idea while messing with EFI stings to make a backup of your com.apple.Boot.plist in an easy to find folder. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158812-after-using-efistudio-boot-hang/#findComment-1114972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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