stooovie Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Hi! I wanted to try new X1950 Pro drivers (from Bronya), so I backed up my existing kexts to /Mac/Extensions. Drivers didn't work in either modes, giving me garbled screen (just cursor was okay). I wanted to restore kexts, so I did cp -R /Volumes/Mac/Extensions /Volumes/Mac/System/Library/Extensions that went without any error message. Is this actually suppposed to OVERWRITE the whole S/L/E folder? Then i did the whole permissions thing chown -R 0:0 /system/library/extensions chmod -R 755 /system/library/extensions rm /system/library/extensions.mkext rm /system/library/extensions.kextcache kextcache -k -z /system/library/extensions (with right Case, obviously) rebooted, tried all modes -x, -f, -v and it was stuck at boot at various stages ("timed out waiting for IOkit to quiesce", "timed out waiting to write kernel symbols" etc). I am lucky to have Time Machine backup, but I would rather just overwrite some kexts Question is: what was I doing wrong? How do I restore my entire kexts backup via -s or DVD installer terminal? I would probably want to overwrite the whole S/L/E folder with that from my backup. I tried to search this forum, but I didn't find anything specific, sorry. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202103-restore-kexts-failure/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Ok. You might have hosed your system in some way . With the assumption that you didn't, you might try rm-ing the /Volumes/Mac/System/Library/Extensions. Of course you'll need to use the -R option. I would have thought that what you did would work, but obviously not. Are you sure you didn't mistype anything? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202103-restore-kexts-failure/#findComment-1358685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stooovie Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hello Lord_Jeremy, I am kinda confused with the slash thing... (you know, coming from C64/Dos/Windows cp /Whatever/ /Wherever/ seems to be actually different than cp /Whatever/ /Wherever (without the slash). I don't recall correctly how I typed those commands, so that may be it. Or may it? If you could shed some light on this, I would be very thankful Tx! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202103-restore-kexts-failure/#findComment-1359204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Hmm, well looking at what you said you did, you should definitely rm the existing folder first. If I recall correctly, cp will just copy new files and leave existing files in the target directory when you copy recursively. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202103-restore-kexts-failure/#findComment-1360716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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