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So close! Wont boot anymore after Migrate Assistant (solved)

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I had a snow leopard build on this rig that was giving me issues with firewire and I managed to make things worse when it wasn't booting consistently.

I cloned the drive with my snow leopard install disk then wiped the drive and started a new install. Everything was running great and I was fully updated to Lion. At this point it was late and I decided to try running Migrate assistant to speed up the process while I went to sleep. I woke up and nothing worked. Tried reboot and it crashes on apple logo. Iboot auto resets and im about to start over :thumbdown:

Is there a fix or would it be best to just start from scratch again and NOT do migrate assistant>
 
Re: So close! Wont boot anymore after Migrate Assistant

And there it is!
thanks!

http://netkas.org/?p=1016

If you would you migration assistant to transfer your account from hackintosh to Mac, you will notice that your hackintosh won’t be able to boot after it. This happens due to osx messing up some file so bootloader can’t boot it.
So, if it happened you need to fix it, with help of another osx copy on your pc.
A fix for single file with name “filename” is:
sudo su
cd folder_of_file
rm .SM.gul.filename
cp filename filename_
rm filename
mv filename_ filename
And the files you need to fix are(* is a wild card):
/*.aml
/mach_kernel
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
 
Can you give me a better picture of how to do this. I am not understanding where to put in the code.
 
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