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Can not boot up system after using Zephyroth Updater to 10.5.5

I am using Leo4All 3 distro, and was advised by someone to use the Zephyroth Updater to get my system to 10.5.5 Everything was working fine until I done this update, now it stops booting at IOKitWaitQuiet timed out waiting to write kernel…

Primary Author: @Milesy303 Published 2008-10-30
Collection: Leopard 10.5
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I am using Leo4All 3 distro, and was advised by someone to use the Zephyroth Updater to get my system to 10.5.5

Everything was working fine until I done this update, now it stops booting at

IOKitWaitQuiet timed out waiting to write kernel symbols

AppleNForceATA: found 0 units.

This is not the same as the "waiting for root device" I have experienced in the past and have solved by copying the ATA kexts to the Extensions. That is done but no joy.

I am using a

Asus M2N-MX SE Plus board
Athlon 64 cpu

Is there a specific kext I need to rip out, replace or add to fix this?

thanks very much

Chris

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Author Update #1 @Milesy303 2008-11-01

Hey. thanks. Done all that. Still the same I am afraid.

Safe mode does not give me my keyboard or mouse.

Cant get in normally still.

It is going on about AppleNForceATA when booting still. Is this a problem with the hard disk drivers or something still then?

Cant figure this out

thanks again

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Field Note #1 @nfoav8or 2008-10-31

I would try fixing permissions and then boot via forced loading:
at countdown press a key, now enter the boot flag:

-s

This is the single user mode... to fix your permissions type:

/sbin/mount -uw /
cd /System/Library/Extensions/
chmod -R 755 * && chown -R root:wheel *
cd ..
rm -Rf Extensions.mkext
reboot

This will cause a forced reboot (where it loads all of the kernel extensions instead of just using the Extensions.mkext file to boot).

If this doesn't produce wanted results, don't worry, you didn't harm your system.

try booting into a forced loaded, safe mode via the boot flag:

-f -x

if you can boot up this way, I think it is just your video extensions causing a problem... simply reinstall them while in safe mode.

let us know how it fares.

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Username	Dossier Contribution	Dispatches	Active Window
@Milesy303	Primary Author	2	2008-10-30 → 2008-11-01
@nfoav8or	Contributor	1	2008-10-31

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