Guest veggycar Posted September 20, 2008 Report Posted September 20, 2008 Hello All, First post so please be gentle... Running a 4211 on OSX installed as per Paul's excellent video and instructions. This morning a friend opened iTunes when Software Update offered updates. He's a Mac guy so 'followed the pictures' and clicked away. Now, of course, I get the 'Restart is required' screen continuously because of the 'Unsupported cpu'. Now, unfortunately I don't have any kind of time machine backup and of course yesterday I did quite a bit of work... Is there any way to get this working or at least rescue the work I did yesterday before starting from scratch again? Many thanks...
Guest veggycar Posted September 20, 2008 Report Posted September 20, 2008 Ok... Update... After continuing to search online, found this in a thread by Biohead... How to fix the Kalyway problem: Boot from your install DVD and open a terminal window then you need to run Code:cd /Volumes/Leopard/System/Library/Extensions/ and then Code:rm -r AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext Replace Leopard with whatever the name of the Volume OSX is on. You can find this out in Disk Utility. Now on bootup I get past the apple and spinning spokes, but then get a blue screen and ultra sensitive cursor... This then sometimes disappears, then the hd light flashes a bit, then it reappears, then disappears and so the cycle continues. I had installed FFScroll and was having some success with it... Could it be this that's upsetting things somehow? Any ideas? Cheers
Guest veggycar Posted September 21, 2008 Report Posted September 21, 2008 Well still getting nowhere... Just this blue screen... If no one has any ideas, could someone please post how I might be able to copy the documents folder onto a pen drive using the terminal on the Kalyway bootup DVD? Think if I can rescue that I'll just start again from scratch with the WINDOSX system... Cheers folks...
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted September 22, 2008 Report Posted September 22, 2008 Hi ... Id read the thread ... but am afraid I dont know how to help or recover this situation.
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Posted September 22, 2008 Does safe mode boot? (add -x at darwin F8 prompt IIRC) P
Guest veggycar Posted September 22, 2008 Report Posted September 22, 2008 Hi Paul, Thanks for your suggestion... No difference with -x though noticed the -v command and tried that... When it gets to the blue screen and pointer, after a while it then turns black, then sometimes displays something about a loginwindow or something like that, it's only on the screen for about half a second, then goes back to the blue screen with pointer. Don't know it this helps... I read in another thread somewhere about someone else getting this, but unfortunately there no follow ups to say if they'd been successful or not! Cheers John
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Posted September 22, 2008 Try -f, then -s. -s should let you boot to a 'command prompt' level... if so, there's a few things you could try from there... P
Guest westwood Posted September 22, 2008 Report Posted September 22, 2008 Paul, I screwed up my system ;) ( i think), by installing the update process, i got everything working and accidentaly updated tp 10.5.5. Now i only get a screen showing me to restart the system everytime i boot. Can u tell me how to reformat the hd and reistall mac osx in the msi wind like new? i have no files in the computer so recovery is not an issue. Thanks
Guest Shuflie Posted September 22, 2008 Report Posted September 22, 2008 Veggycar: Why don't you reinstall without formatting the harddrive and allow OSX to archive the previous installation. You should be able to get at your work that way, then delete the archived installation when you've finished. Assuming there's enough harddrive space left on the 4221 to allow this of course.
Guest veggycar Posted September 23, 2008 Report Posted September 23, 2008 I'm afraid I ended up reinstalling... It didn't want to play with just an 'on top' install, so erased the disk and started from scratch. This time I went down the WINDOSX86 disk which sailed through the install. I then tried to upgrade to 10.5.5, and had problems again. After swearing a lot, I think it did the upgrade, but after trying to reinstall the graphics kext it got stuck on the apple spinning spokes screen but the pointer appeared on it (!). Tried repairing permissions but still the same so did another fresh install and am staying at 10.5.4 for the time being! Thanks for all your help and suggestions folks!
Guest machead Posted September 24, 2008 Report Posted September 24, 2008 I had the same problem as you, after I followed Paul's upgrade instructions, I was stuck at the blue screen with a moveable pointer. I did a safe boot, and reinstalled ALL kexts. Rebooted and Presto!!! Hope this helps. ;) I'm afraid I ended up reinstalling... It didn't want to play with just an 'on top' install, so erased the disk and started from scratch. This time I went down the WINDOSX86 disk which sailed through the install. I then tried to upgrade to 10.5.5, and had problems again. After swearing a lot, I think it did the upgrade, but after trying to reinstall the graphics kext it got stuck on the apple spinning spokes screen but the pointer appeared on it (!). Tried repairing permissions but still the same so did another fresh install and am staying at 10.5.4 for the time being! Thanks for all your help and suggestions folks!
Guest the_accidental Posted September 25, 2008 Report Posted September 25, 2008 Ah, but do you still have QE and hw core image?
Guest bluepolo Posted September 28, 2008 Report Posted September 28, 2008 Ah, but do you still have QE and hw core image? I got the problem the OP mentions, and to save others wrote up the solution here. I never managed to solve the only getting a blue screen problem though. In the end I reinstalled which is a shame. Its the first time ever running OSX that I had to do this to solve a problem ;) BP
Guest dsc81 Posted October 4, 2008 Report Posted October 4, 2008 I had the same problem as you, after I followed Paul's upgrade instructions, I was stuck at the blue screen with a moveable pointer. I did a safe boot, and reinstalled ALL kexts. Rebooted and Presto!!! Hope this helps. ;) how do you reinstalled all kexts?
Guest dsc81 Posted October 10, 2008 Report Posted October 10, 2008 Ok... Update... After continuing to search online, found this in a thread by Biohead... How to fix the Kalyway problem: Boot from your install DVD and open a terminal window then you need to run Code:cd /Volumes/Leopard/System/Library/Extensions/ and then Code:rm -r AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext Replace Leopard with whatever the name of the Volume OSX is on. You can find this out in Disk Utility. Now on bootup I get past the apple and spinning spokes, but then get a blue screen and ultra sensitive cursor... This then sometimes disappears, then the hd light flashes a bit, then it reappears, then disappears and so the cycle continues. I had installed FFScroll and was having some success with it... Could it be this that's upsetting things somehow? Any ideas? Cheers Hi Thanks for your advise, I do excatly the coding (PS: the command is case sensitive) and it work... but remember to install all kext so your msi mac will work normally Thanks
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