Extensions messed up! Can only boot -x

[stelfrusen]

Hi everyone!

New in this hackintosh world, so my knowledge is kind of basic. However, i managed to completly install a functional mac os leopard (Iatkos7) on my AMD pc (dual booting with Vista + ubuntu)(sound not working thou!)

 

When I were trying to solve to soundproblem i tried installing drivers by using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. However, the sound problem didn't solve plus I were no more able to boot in normal mode, just safe mode.

"Cannt resolve dependencies for kernelextension System/liberary/extensions/appleHDA.kext/contents/plugins/appleHDAcontroller.kext. " I get when booting in -v.

Anyone have a clue how to fix this? Or reset the system or something. Glad for all tips I can get!

Thanks in advance

[gyozadude]

If the error is the AppleHDA.kext in /S/L/E then you can boot single-user mode (-v -s), then at the shell prompt (you should have a root prompt, you should see the instructions to run a filesystems check and mount command:

 

# fsck -fy (wait some time for this to complete)

# mount -uw /

 

then you should be able to do the following:

 

# cd /System/Library/Extensions

# mv AppleHDA.kext AppleHDA.kext.notworking

# sync; sync; sync

# reboot

 

You may see some warnings when you boot, but it should get you back to GUI. When you're back up, you can either go back into /S/L/E and see [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] moved the previous (sort of working/non-blocking kext) to AppleHDA.kext.bak and if it exists, you can try to:

 

# cd /System/Library/Extensions

# mv AppleHDA.kext.bak AppleHDA.kext

 

If you know how to run kextcache, do so, or download and run "kext util" tool (2.3.2 or later) and it should clean up and set correct perms for /S/L/E and /Extra/Extensions and build the Extensions.mkext.

 

You should be back to normal unless the old AppleHDA.kext was not moved to .bak. Good Luck.