10.4.9 upgrade interesting predicament

[kluenitou]

Ok, here's a quick rundown of my current situation:

 

I have been running my hackint0sh at 10.4.8 for the past couple of weeks and today decided to try and upgrade to 10.4.9. I followed pandnaka's post on the 10.4.9 update sticky but I made quite a huge mistake. I followed it all the way through to step 5 when on the last step, I accidentally issued the command:

 

rm -rf /system/library/extensions

 

instead of

 

rm -rf /system/library/extensions.*

 

Now I realize how incredibly stupid that was and I'm kicking myself for it. Of course, now the whole extensions folder is gone. Thankfully I have an identical machine that I just did the update to earlier today using the same guide (successfully!) and so I copied the extensions folder onto a usb drive at the same step thinking I could easily write it to this machine, repair the permissions, and get on with things.

 

However, when I insert the flash drive into the system, it's not mounting and appearing on the desktop as it usually does. I'm sure this has something to do with the fact that during the upgrade, it locks out some functionality until you reboot, but since the drive isn't mounting, there is no way to get the files from it to restore what I stupidly deleted. It won't let me connect to network drives or mount a cd either. The drive is recognized by the machine as I can see it in the System Profiler, but it simply isn't mounting as it usually would. Is there any way to fix this via the terminal or something so that I can restore the files without restarting? I'm sure it wouldn't restart since every kext in the extensions folder is now gone.

 

Am I totally screwed? I feel like the answer is yes, but I'm hoping someone who has more knowledge of the OS than my relative n00bosity can lend some nice info.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[athlon64dude]

Ok, here's a quick rundown of my current situation:

 

I have been running my hackint0sh at 10.4.8 for the past couple of weeks and today decided to try and upgrade to 10.4.9. I followed pandnaka's post on the 10.4.9 update sticky but I made quite a huge mistake. I followed it all the way through to step 5 when on the last step, I accidentally issued the command:

 

rm -rf /system/library/extensions

 

instead of

 

rm -rf /system/library/extensions.*

 

Now I realize how incredibly stupid that was and I'm kicking myself for it. Of course, now the whole extensions folder is gone. Thankfully I have an identical machine that I just did the update to earlier today using the same guide (successfully!) and so I copied the extensions folder onto a usb drive at the same step thinking I could easily write it to this machine, repair the permissions, and get on with things.

 

However, when I insert the flash drive into the system, it's not mounting and appearing on the desktop as it usually does. I'm sure this has something to do with the fact that during the upgrade, it locks out some functionality until you reboot, but since the drive isn't mounting, there is no way to get the files from it to restore what I stupidly deleted. It won't let me connect to network drives or mount a cd either. The drive is recognized by the machine as I can see it in the System Profiler, but it simply isn't mounting as it usually would. Is there any way to fix this via the terminal or something so that I can restore the files without restarting? I'm sure it wouldn't restart since every kext in the extensions folder is now gone.

 

Am I totally screwed? I feel like the answer is yes, but I'm hoping someone who has more knowledge of the OS than my relative n00bosity can lend some nice info.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I don't know if this would work but if you have an identical machine, couldn't you just take out the hd and put it into that system, copy over the hd contents then repair and boot?