mikedddd Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Hello, all. I have a I7/P55m-UD2 that I've loaded with 10.6, updated to 10.6.4 without problems with the tonymac/[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] system. I transferred aps over from a time machine backup. This transfers over kexts that screw the system over. I backed up the kexts that worked, but I can only boot single user. How do I, in single user, delete the extensions folder and transfer over my backed up extensions from my desktop? Any help from CLI wizards would be helpful. It turns out Fortran77 didn't prepare me much for modern OS's. Best, Mike Edit- tried cp -r to replace folder, but got about 10,000 error messages and it appears the folder is not replaced. Any other suggestions appreciated. Best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianxxx Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Hello, all.I have a I7/P55m-UD2 that I've loaded with 10.6, updated to 10.6.4 without problems with the tonymac/[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] system. I transferred aps over from a time machine backup. This transfers over kexts that screw the system over. I backed up the kexts that worked, but I can only boot single user. How do I, in single user, delete the extensions folder and transfer over my backed up extensions from my desktop? Any help from CLI wizards would be helpful. It turns out Fortran77 didn't prepare me much for modern OS's. Best, Mike Edit- tried cp -r to replace folder, but got about 10,000 error messages and it appears the folder is not replaced. Any other suggestions appreciated. Best Try looking up some unix commands -R not -r if you want to copy all in directory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.B Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 not sure if it will work (though there is a chance) but if you know all the kexts that you don't want, try booting into a liveCD, deleting them all, then booting with the flags -v -f which will ignore the caches and scan all the present kexts. you will have to rebuild a new mkext afterwards if it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikedddd Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 not sure if it will work (though there is a chance) but if you know all the kexts that you don't want, try booting into a liveCD, deleting them all, then booting with the flags -v -f which will ignore the caches and scan all the present kexts. you will have to rebuild a new mkext afterwards if it works Live CD would have been an excellent idea, thank you. I did an archive/reinstall of the system and am manually moving the applications over, reinstalling as needed. Taking a while but seems quite stable. Appreciated the assistance. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.B Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 no problem, check back if you get any more errors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikedddd Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 no problem, check back if you get any more errors Thanks. Unfortunately, a full Unix CLI review is a bit beyond the scope of a standard internet forum, so I went the harder, but more likely for success path. Just hate reinstalling aps, but unfortunately the restore from time machine always drags over useless/incompatible kexts. Appreciate the assistance, though. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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