minnie Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 So I was mucking around with my boards overclock and stuffed something up. Even with the board set back to defaults. I can now only boot with the -f at darwin. Otherwise it sits at the gear, not addressing the drive until the no smoking sign. If I replace a kext it boots once then next boot same, I get the no smoking sign. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63467-dang/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
voxxdigital Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 It's a forbidden sign, otherwise it would have a cigarette inside it Did you try to add the "-f" as a kernel flag to the /Library/Preferences/System Configuration/com.apple.boot.plist file? This would automatically type the "-f" at every reboot... that means the extensions cache is trashed every treboot. Example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Boot Graphics</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>-f</string> </dict> </plist> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63467-dang/#findComment-449771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnie Posted September 17, 2007 Author Share Posted September 17, 2007 Lol, thanks Voxxdigital, I do like a pedant! Yes, that's exactly what I have done, it's the only way I could get the machine booting without nursing it everytime. I still can't figure out why it can't boot without rebuilding the cache, I guess I have damaged some extensions or something? In any case it doesn't look like I can repair this without a fresh install.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63467-dang/#findComment-449876 Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh256 Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 and when you boot the second time a -v doesn't indicate what the problem is? (eg. diskarb, NIC, etc) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63467-dang/#findComment-449948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnie Posted September 18, 2007 Author Share Posted September 18, 2007 Hi Josh256, Thanks for the reply. Actually I didn't think of that. Doh! 'Still waiting for root device' is where it stops. But it's a SATA drive and nothing I change in the bios is fixing it...... any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63467-dang/#findComment-450637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 Have you tried enabling or disabling AHCI in BIOS? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63467-dang/#findComment-451515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
voxxdigital Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Hi Josh256,Thanks for the reply. Actually I didn't think of that. Doh! 'Still waiting for root device' is where it stops. But it's a SATA drive and nothing I change in the bios is fixing it...... any ideas? minnie, did you ever fix your problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63467-dang/#findComment-499283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnie Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 Hi Voxxdigital. I think something had corrupted at some point. A reinstall fixed it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63467-dang/#findComment-499823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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