Easy One how do I mount HDD and restore com.apple.boot.plist via DVD terminal
Here's the thing, I st my Chameleon 2 timeout to -1 thinking it'd remove the timeout and wait for my selection. (it was 8AM and had been up all night) don't know why I didn't just remove the number. (thats how right?) I have an AMD with…
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Here's the thing, I st my Chameleon 2 timeout to -1 thinking it'd remove the timeout and wait for my selection. (it was 8AM and had been up all night) don't know why I didn't just remove the number. (thats how right?) I have an AMD with ideneb 10.5.8 update and need to type voodoo at the command prompt to boot right. How do I mount the HDD via the install DVD's terminal and edit or restore from backup, my com.apple.boot.plist? I have a triple boot setup and have rendered ALL of my OS's inoperable! LOL A little help would be appreciated.
BTW, Can't I just rename voodoo to mach_kernel and delete the vanilla kernel to make voodoo the default, Or do I change the string in com.apple.boot.plist from mach_kernel to voodoo?
?(fsck -fy and mount -uw /)?
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maybe I shoulda googled it more. Be back and let you know if and how I fixed it. gonna try and restore via ubuntu liveCD
I have mounted and opened my com.apple.boot.plist with Vim but when I edit I cannot save changes (read-only file system) Help? don't know how to change permissions.
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tried nano, vi and gedit, no luck. don't know how to change permissions
Ok, Solved this one. Heres how I did it:
1. booted up normally, while holding the F8 key. was greeted by the Chameleon OS selector screeen
2. started normally with the voodoo -v
3. edited com.apple.boot.plist and made the following changes:
3a. removed number from timeout string
3b. changed kernel string from "mach_kernel" to voodoo to make it the default kernel
3c. (optional) added -v flag to kernel flag string section so it boots into verbose mode by default
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