ash1666 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Edit - originally i was having problems starting without autoload=y... but now my problem is different. i can load up osx without autoload=y (ive checked both boot.plists that i can find, and under <kernel flags> there is nothing there... but none of the kextsin /extra/GeneralExtensions are being loaded. I did kextstat | grep 801 and it shows nothing if i do sudo kextload IO80211Family.kext then do kextstat | grep 801 it shows it is loaded, but my wifi still doesn't work. same with the ethernet kext, but this time once i have kextload'ed it, it at least shows up in Network settings (but doesnt actually connect correctly) so i think my problem is none of the kexts are loading... how can i get them to load? Maybe because I kept booting with recovery=y it now doesn't load any of the .kexts? I have run updateextra, which should rebuild the cache for the kexts but it has made no difference any ideas? (original message is below) Hi, I was playing with the app in /Applications called OSx86Tools, and saw it had a Modify About this Mac option. I played with it, but then ended up setting everything to default anyway. But on restarting it gave a panic error saying Unsupported CPU: family. I managed to run it by setting a boot option of arch=i386 recovery=y (and have actually edited com.apple.boot.plist and under kernel flags, added that line) but because of recovery=y, none of the kexts are run, so i have no wifi etc. any idea how to go about fixing this? From what i've worked out recovery=y means no kexts are loaded. so if it runs when kexts are not allowed to run, it must be an error with one of them. could i just delete some kexts? (theres two related to cpuid) is it safe to do so? edit - the error is panic(cpu 0 called 0x1b3501c3): "Unsupported CPU: family = 0x6, models = 0x1c, stepping = 0x2"@/SourceCache/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement-105.13/pmProcessor.c:210 Lower down it says something about Darwin Kernal being 10.7.0... but im running snow leopard EDIT - i think i may have originally run updateextra but then quit it when it crashed. I ran it again, after a while it did it, now i can restart without recovery=y or arch=i386.... but wifi isnt working... any idea what to do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274791-played-with-modify-about-this-mac-and-can-only-boot-with-recoveryy/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rrrrrrrrrrr Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 So you got everything to work normally again except for Wifi? Try deleting the driver/kexts (back it up though!!) for your Wifi and reinstall it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274791-played-with-modify-about-this-mac-and-can-only-boot-with-recoveryy/#findComment-1787638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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