Cookeydile Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Got an Asus M4n68t (from memory) mobo, 1tb hard drive (not sure what make), 8600gt, amd phenom II x4 645 and 8gb ram. Got iatkos 10.6.3 installed and working, did combo update to 10.6.7, backed up my kernel, stupidly didn't copy my old kernel back in, and now get an ACPI kernel panic. My question is - can I simply reinstall a working kernel from the dvd without overwriting everything else? My kexts are backed up and resintalling them is no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasys Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Yes simply fire up the DVD , go To Terminal type df -h You'll see a list something like this /dev/disk0s2 465Gi 266Gi 200Gi 58% / devfs 110Ki 110Ki 0Bi 100% /dev map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /net map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /home /dev/disk1s1 233Gi 110Gi 123Gi 48% /Volumes/BOOTCAMP Simply go to /Volumes/<whatever your HD name is> and just swap (use mv) the files , you should be able to swap it. Its not a big problem. The question is are you familiar with UNIX commands Anyhow , the command you'll be needing is mv mach_kernel mach_verybadkernel mv youroldkernelbackupname mach_kernel reboot ! Easier way is to use chameleon and in arguments , simply supply the patched mach kernel name (i.e patched_kernel). Two ways , your call ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookeydile Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 Brilliant - thanks. I actually ended up using the 10.6.7 legacy kernel installer - required rebooting twice and then chameleon refreshed everything. I am familiar with UNIX commands I'm not that n00b, it has just been a while since I installed a Hackintosh system so I am a bit rusty Using the -force64 flag in my boot.plist has given me my 8gb ram back, and system info is reporting 1 cpu with four cores Looks like I am in business Next question - any way to prevent various partitions showing up in the chameleon bootloader for selection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Next question - any way to prevent various partitions showing up in the chameleon bootloader for selection?Use "Hide Partition" option to hide one or more partitions. Like: <key>Hide Partition</key> <string>"Linux" "Data" "Backup"</string> You may use disk label, device name or UUID. Please read Chameleon documentation for more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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