michael.su Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Help Gurus! I have a fully functional Hackintosh running 10.5.6 (iPC) I would like to update from to 10.5.8 using the ideneb updater. The posts i keep hearing is "back up your kexts" and which kexts to backup depends on your install. I would really appreciate eveyone's input on what i need to back up exactly so i'll post my specsand my best recollection of my editing and hopfully you'll have some brilliant insight for me. The video card fix is the only thing I can think of that needed modding after first boot. What should I backup? Bigthanks for any input! The system is a dimension 4400 2 GHz intel P4 no SSE3 so Voodoo Kernel was used. Dell Dimension 4400 iPC 10.5.6 Universal Final Kernel: 9.5.0 voodoo Kernel Chipset Drivers: LegacyAppleIntelPIIATA Audio Drivers - Using a usb sound adapter Fixes and Patches: AppleSMBIOS ToH , Seatbelt.Kext 10.5.5 Video – AGP FX 5200 Video card used NVinject, I had to overwrite coregraphics.framework with 10.5.5 to fix graphical artifacts Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215453-backing-up-kexts/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
neer2005 Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Help Gurus! I have a fully functional Hackintosh running 10.5.6 (iPC) I would like to update from to 10.5.8 using the ideneb updater. The posts i keep hearing is "back up your kexts" and which kexts to backup depends on your install. I would really appreciate eveyone's input on what i need to back up exactly so i'll post my specsand my best recollection of my editing and hopfully you'll have some brilliant insight for me. The video card fix is the only thing I can think of that needed modding after first boot. What should I backup? Bigthanks for any input! The system is a dimension 4400 2 GHz intel P4 no SSE3 so Voodoo Kernel was used. Dell Dimension 4400 iPC 10.5.6 Universal Final Kernel: 9.5.0 voodoo Kernel Chipset Drivers: LegacyAppleIntelPIIATA Audio Drivers - Using a usb sound adapter Fixes and Patches: AppleSMBIOS ToH , Seatbelt.Kext 10.5.5 Video – AGP FX 5200 Video card used NVinject, I had to overwrite coregraphics.framework with 10.5.5 to fix graphical artifacts try OSX86Tools hold on i will try to link you its awesome and a 1 click backup and restore http://code.google.com/p/osx86tools/ try that good luck :] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215453-backing-up-kexts/#findComment-1447709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.su Posted April 13, 2010 Author Share Posted April 13, 2010 try OSX86Tools hold on i will try to link you its awesome and a 1 click backup and restorehttp://code.google.com/p/osx86tools/ try that good luck :] Thank you for the simple and extremely helpful tip. I had no Idea that it was that simple. The only other question I have is ...if I update and it bricks my system, I can't use osx86 tools to restore right? do i just manually place the backup kext and kernal in the proper location on the drive and everything should be back in working order with a restart? Thanks, -Mike Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215453-backing-up-kexts/#findComment-1447765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neer2005 Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 as far as i know if it bricks your system there is no way to restore via osx86tools also there is a restore tool in osx86 no need for manually doing it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215453-backing-up-kexts/#findComment-1447775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.su Posted April 13, 2010 Author Share Posted April 13, 2010 as far as i know if it bricks your system there is no way to restore via osx86tools also there is a restore tool in osx86 no need for manually doing it I saw the restore feature which is cool. With the manual backing up I was referring to if my system got bricked. I wasn't sure if a manual restore was the only option if the system wouldn't start. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215453-backing-up-kexts/#findComment-1447804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neer2005 Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 im not too sure as my system hasnt been bricked (yet) lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215453-backing-up-kexts/#findComment-1447810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.su Posted April 13, 2010 Author Share Posted April 13, 2010 im not too sure as my system hasnt been bricked (yet) lol hahaha. keep working on it! I try to brick mine all in good fun. it's the best way I learn I'm glad I have a time machine backup Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215453-backing-up-kexts/#findComment-1447820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gusjdt Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Thank you for the simple and extremely helpful tip. I had no Idea that it was that simple.The only other question I have is ...if I update and it bricks my system, I can't use osx86 tools to restore right? do i just manually place the backup kext and kernal in the proper location on the drive and everything should be back in working order with a restart? Thanks, -Mike This is something I also didn't know, interesting! Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215453-backing-up-kexts/#findComment-1449975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neer2005 Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 no problem Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215453-backing-up-kexts/#findComment-1451114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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