F*ck, I'm Stuck

[b416]

Ok, here is the situation : I had a nice hackintosh installed from Jas 10.4.8 DVD. I run the Liko 10.4.9 updater downloaded from torrent (I did not select the kernel, only the 10.4.9 update).

 

After the reboot I have the ugly "You need to restart your computer. Hold Down the Power button..." message. Ok, I said to myself, let's go back to 10.4.8. So I boot from the DVD, keep everithing selected by default + 10.4.8 Jas Intel and start installing ("upgrading")... and at some point, I think when installing the 10.4.8 kernel, I got the message "There was an error during installation, Try Again"

 

yeah, I would like to keep the data on the disk. Any ideas?

 

But, of course if anything else works, I will reformat that drive and restart from scratch.

 

 

Hardware :

 

Asus P5VD2-X modo

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13

Asus EN7300GT SILENT/HTD/256M graphic card

[lord_muad_dib]

for the 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 time

 

-v

[b416]

I did that too... same result

[Lactobacillus P]

It does help to read what it being printed on the screen and report that back so we can see what is going wrong here.

[b416]

Well, when I boot from the HD, it says "You need to restart your computer. Hold Down the Power button..." in 4 different languages, that's all.

 

When I try to install 10.4.8 over it, I have "There was an error during installation" and that's all. Is there a log file I should look into?

[lord_muad_dib]

doh... press F8 on boot..

at the boot prompt type -v [enter]

 

report back the bottom-most error

[b416]

I did that... and there is no error, only the regular black screen, showing "Loading Darwin/x86..." and then goes the gray screen with "You need to restart your computer. Hold Down the Power button...". That's all.

[lord_muad_dib]

try to boot with cpus=1

[b416]

Ok, I will try that in a couple of hours (I am at work now).

 

Thanks for your patience.

[Pharohbender]

Ok, I will try that in a couple of hours (I am at work now).

 

Thanks for your patience.

 

 

you screwed up you install format and reinstall i updated itunes and quicktime thru software update only to boot up again and that screwed my install wtf.

 

 

dont use mac software update!

[Dainix]

I, too, ran into this error, and you may have the same problem as I do (which I haven't fixed yet myself). When you get to that point in the installation, search your menu above for the Installer log. It should tell you what happened there.

[macbrush]

ALWAYS do a disk image backup if you're going to do any major (or minor in case of hackintosh) updates to your system. I guess this is kind of common sense since even a slightest change can mess up a hacked system (or even a perfectly health original OS), and spoof!

[Dainix]

Also, on the install error part, this is the error I received:

 

BomFileError 1: Operation not permitted - /Volumes/mac//System/Library/CoreServices/BootX

All that this tells me is that there's a weird error in the script somewhere that included an extra slash.

[b416]

Finally, I formated and reinstalled it completely from the Jas 10.4.8 DVD. Then I applied the netkas procedure. Everything went well, I then did the software update (Java, iTunes, X11...). This went well too, so me happy...

 

...until I find out that this does not seem stable. I started it this morning, went to work, to see that I can't connect. Asked somebody home to do a hard reset; connected then and 10-15 minutes later - crash again.

 

Will see the logs and details this evening...

 

Oh no....

 

Replying to myself, I know what happened : the computer goes to sleep; I forgot to change the settings after the new install, and by default it goes to sleep after a while...

 

me stupid, sorry