Hackintosh won't boot unless...

[domoisawesomeSH]

Ok, so I updated my Kalyway 10.5.2 computer to 10.5.3 then 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 then from there I used the iDeneb 10.5.8 combo update to update it to 10.5.8 and now every time i want to boot my computer up it will just go into an endless reboot cycle unless I interrupt the Darwin loader and type

update -v

then it boots up, I find this annoying as I have to do it every single time I boot it up so if you could help it would be great, thanks.

[mulcyber]

Ok, so I updated my Kalyway 10.5.2 computer to 10.5.3 then 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 then from there I used the iDeneb 10.5.8 combo update to update it to 10.5.8 and now every time i want to boot my computer up it will just go into an endless reboot cycle unless I interrupt the Darwin loader and type

update -v

then it boots up, I find this annoying as I have to do it every single time I boot it up so if you could help it would be great, thanks.

 

I don't know anything about Kalyway, I suppose the kernels are changing.

Anyway I speculated that editing com.apple.Boot.plist might work and found,

 

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http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t115147.html

 

"I also had to run "update -v" every time after I updated from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3. Then I

found out that update was not a command, it was the name of the kernel.

 

So there were 2 solutions:

 

1:

modify the file /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist using the commands:

 

sudo -s

nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

You will get a file that looks like this:

 

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs$

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>5</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

Replace the line <string>mach_kernel</string> with <string>update</string> and save the document.

 

2:

Make a backup of the used kernel and then rename the update kernel as the old one using the commands:

 

sudo cp /mach_kernel /mach_kernel.bak

sudo cp /update /mach_kernel

 

You can select the old kernel any time entering mach_kernel.bak at boot."

 

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If something went really wrong and you couldn't boot, I think it would be easier to remove (rm)

the new mach_kernel and restore = cp back mach_kernel.bak to mach_kernel from a boot cd,

than to edit the com.apple.Boot.plist back to the original (restore mach_kernel after <key>

Kernel). This looks live a reasonable solution and doesn't seem to harbor a hidden catastrophe.

[domoisawesomeSH]

Thank you for the reply, actually I fixed the problem by changing my kernel version to voodoo 9.50 and using chameleon bootloader in the iDeneb update and that seemed to have fixed it, thanks for your reply though

[Gringo Vermelho]

You should use a 9.8.0 kernel if you're on 10.5.8.

 

Read this:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=209192