Removing individual kext files?

[D A R K S 7 A R]

Hey all. I've stumbled into another problem, unfortunately.

 

I installed the 10.6.5 update for Snow Leopard through the Software Updater, and that seemed fine. When I restarted the computer at the end of the installation, I can no longer boot into OS X due to a kernel panic. I have managed to work out that the Kernel Panic is being caused by a 'Sleep Enabler' kext, which is unfortunate. What is even more unfortunate is that I have no idea how to properly remove the kext without booting into the Operating System. Are there any useful commands or such I can enter at boot-up in order to remove the kext or is another OS X reinstall the only option (hopefully not... I have some apps I like at the moment). Below are two of the more useful details about my system:

 

Distro: iAtkos S3

Laptop: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Li2735

[dothacker]

boot from dvd

use terminal

 

cd /Volumes/YOUR-VOLUME-NAME/System/Library/Extensions

rm -rf sleepenabler.kext

 

or

 

move kext

mv /Volumes/PARTITION NAME/System/Library/Extensions/sleepenabler.kext.kext /Volumes/extra

 

or

 

pmVersion=0 (Disable SleepEnabler)

pmVersion=17 (10.6.0/1)

pmVersion=18 (10.6.2)

pmVersion=19 (10.6.3)

pmVersion=20 (10.6.4)

 

By the way, I used SEARCH. You should use it sometime.

[Dellmantt]

boot from dvd

use terminal

 

cd /Volumes/YOUR-VOLUME-NAME/System/Library/Extensions

rm -rf sleepenabler.kext

 

or

 

move kext

mv /Volumes/PARTITION NAME/System/Library/Extensions/sleepenabler.kext.kext /Volumes/extra

 

or

 

pmVersion=0 (Disable SleepEnabler)

pmVersion=17 (10.6.0/1)

pmVersion=18 (10.6.2)

pmVersion=19 (10.6.3)

pmVersion=20 (10.6.4)

 

By the way, I used SEARCH. You should use it sometime.

Or you can boot in single user mode -s and remove. Depending on the install method SleepEnabler kext could be in Extra/Extensions

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&...q=&gs_rfai=

[dothacker]

^^^ Thanks, Dellmantt