raszeck Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Hey there: Forum newbie posting I need help, I screwed up really BAD, and after successfuly upgrading 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 with iDeneb combo, I used the iDeneb tool kit and installed "ACPI kext for 10.5.8" so my OS X (believe it or not, primary system and working fine for more than a year now) won't boot anymore... Is there anyway to fix the problem besides formatting ? :S I know I shouldn't have done that, but I was tired of my system not shutting down (due to ACPI I assumed) since I updated to 10.5.7 and made the wrong decission. Any Ideas? (Used the search, didn't find a similar issue... well, maybe I'm THAT dumb) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185368-wrong-acpi-kext-osx-not-booting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
iGO M.D Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Install Old ACPI APIC KEXT. Google is your friend. U'll need a windows or linux, better windows with macdrive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185368-wrong-acpi-kext-osx-not-booting/#findComment-1259286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
raszeck Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 That's my main problem, I did NOT backup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185368-wrong-acpi-kext-osx-not-booting/#findComment-1259289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GimmeRed Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 That's my main problem, I did NOT backup. Can you reload mac on an external drive or do you have another partition that you can load it on? I have Mac loaded twice on my internal drive so I can test new kext or updates. It makes life much easier. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185368-wrong-acpi-kext-osx-not-booting/#findComment-1259389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
raszeck Posted September 10, 2009 Author Share Posted September 10, 2009 Can you reload mac on an external drive or do you have another partition that you can load it on? I have Mac loaded twice on my internal drive so I can test new kext or updates. It makes life much easier. nah... I'm helpless... Here's my story: I'm a long time mac user (although, no expert)... Learned assisted design ages ago on a powermac 9600, switched to G3... Had iMacs and ibooks up to G4, but that was the limit. Times are hard and I still needed more power as software advanced and possibilities grew, so I switched to X86 (PC, windows) A year ago tried installing OSX on an old 160GB IDE drive, thinking it was going to suck, but hey.... It worked like a charm, and kept it as my primary OS. But here's the thing: No backups, no double installations for checking/testing purposes, and as you can figure by now, NO BRAINS. So... There's no option, I'm gonna format and reinstall (lucky me, practically all my work is in other drives) and I'll have to reinstall all the software, and for that locate all the software boxes and discs I had long forgotten. And updates, OMG updates... EDIT: OK! This is just weird.... My computer felt sorry of me.... I was making a backup from macdrive on windows7 to later reinstall OSX and while rebooting to start the process, I decided to give it another chance. I had just copied the SAME file I tried yesterday with no luck, but this time OSX just booted fine... Wonders of life.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185368-wrong-acpi-kext-osx-not-booting/#findComment-1259815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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