Ok, so after I got time machine going and backed-up my good install
, I decided to attack the issues of my audio (ADI AD2000B), chipset (AMD 790FX/SB750), LAN (Marvell 88E8056) that goes buggy when I update to voodoo 9.5.0
, my eSata controller (Marvell 88SE6111) so that I could get eSata going, and my firewire (LSI L-FW3227) because I didn't install the kexts for firewire in my initial install
. I located some threads for all of my different devices in different forums and decided to try the audio first. The one that looked the most promising was the AppleAzaliaAudio.kext (which surprising enough, I noticed existing on the iDeneb DVD when I was doing the inistial install.) Instead of grabbing it from the DVD, I decided to download it from a link posted in a forum which the author of the post stated that he had the same audio chip as my motherboard did. So I installed that kext with osx86 tools and restarted the machine. I didn't want to cause a kernel panic by installing too many kexts at once. But, when I restarted, I had an error message come up.
Even before I got to the Darwin prompt, an error message came up saying something to the effect of: Can not boot, can not find /system/library/..........com.apple.boot.plist.
Ok, nothing to scary, right?
That is why I did a full back up using time machine of a working system, right. For cases or situations like this. So, I booted off of my iDeneb dvd and used the restore previous backup option to restore my system. Now the only issue is that after the restore, when I try to boot from the HDD, it gives me this error or something similar:
boot: 0
boot: 0
boot: 0
boot: MBR
And then nothing. No matter what I try, nothing. The weird thing is that when I was given the option to restore from a previous backup, there were two backups, one that that was just a little less then 10 mins older than the other.
So I chose the older of the two thinking that it would contain the least amount of changes and the most probability of booting correctly. WELL I WAS WRONG!!
hahahaha.
So, any ideas as to why that happened? I would REALLY REALLY like to get time machine working properly before I update to voodoo 9.5.0 and/or install any other kexts, just in case, you know what I mean?
So any input would be GREAT! Thanks guys.