Vasto Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I had a working 10.6.2 installation following DigitalDreamer's guide. I ran into panics, and then decided to reinstall the EFI partition using my friend's MacBook Pro. Building the cache fails because the kexts don't have the correct owner/permissions. The problem is that I can't even do this in the Terminal on his macbook. I already did sudo -s. bash-3.2# cd /Volumes/EFI/Extra/ bash-3.2# ls -al total 32 drwxr-xr-x@ 7 _unknown _unknown 238 Jul 25 19:11 . drwxrwxr-x 5 _unknown _unknown 238 Aug 1 12:33 .. -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 _unknown _unknown 6148 Jul 25 18:48 .DS_Store drwxr-xr-x@ 11 _unknown _unknown 374 Jul 25 18:48 Themes drwxrwxrwx 11 _unknown _unknown 374 Jul 25 19:11 _Kexts_For_Extra_Cache -rwxr-xr-x 1 _unknown _unknown 566 Jul 25 18:48 com.apple.boot.plist -rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 1173 Jul 25 18:51 smbios.plist bash-3.2# chown -R root:wheel _Kexts_For_Extra_Cache/ bash-3.2# ls -al _Kexts_For_Extra_Cache/ total 0 drwxrwxrwx 11 _unknown _unknown 374 Jul 25 19:11 . drwxr-xr-x@ 7 _unknown _unknown 238 Jul 25 19:11 .. drwxrwxrwx@ 3 _unknown _unknown 102 Jul 25 19:11 ATY_Init.kext drwxrwxrwx@ 3 _unknown _unknown 102 Jul 25 19:11 AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext drwxrwxrwx@ 3 _unknown _unknown 102 Jul 25 19:11 IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext drwxrwxrwx@ 3 _unknown _unknown 102 Jul 25 19:11 JMicronATA.kext drwxrwxrwx@ 3 _unknown _unknown 102 Jul 25 19:11 NullCPUPowerManagement.kext drwxrwxrwx@ 3 _unknown _unknown 102 Jul 25 19:11 OpenHaltRestart.kext drwxrwxrwx@ 3 _unknown _unknown 102 Jul 25 19:11 PlatformUUID.kext drwxrwxrwx 5 _unknown _unknown 170 Jul 25 19:11 _Kexts_For_System drwxrwxrwx@ 3 _unknown _unknown 102 Jul 25 19:11 fakesmc.kext bash-3.2# Anyone have any idea as to why I can't make this root:wheel as sudo -s? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/227236-unable-to-chown-rootwheel/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 No, but you don't have to worry about permissions in this case. Chameleon doesn't care what the permissions are on anything in /Extra or any of its subfolders. Tip: You can use cVad's Kext Utility to build an Extensions.mkext - just drag the extensions folder onto the kext utility icon. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/227236-unable-to-chown-rootwheel/#findComment-1522804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 Thanks. I used cVac's Kext Utility to build mkext. My installation is unstable as hell (probably due to other things), but at least it boots now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/227236-unable-to-chown-rootwheel/#findComment-1522995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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