Voodohda has made me into a zombie !

[malmaaak]

VoodooHDA has made me into a zombie !

Greetings

I have the delight of having taken over a buddies hackintosh

running snow leopard on a gigabyte rig about two years old ( i do not think it had multibeast) with chameleon booter
plugged in my head phones .....nada
Of course I immediately stuck in a sound card (mia midi) grabbed the needed kexts
In the rush I of course did not read every forum

And then a logic interface issue occurred ( I #$%%$ upped !)

I ran the script to uninstall the appleHDA And then went and loaded the VoodooHDA.kext !

Rebooted

And yes as you guessed the dred grey screen "you need to restart your computer etc. popped up"
Panic panic panic

Aai carumba

Hours of googleing later I discovered this

Yay he thought……….

"to remove the voodooHDA.kext.

Bootup with -s (single user mode)

Done !

then:

/sbin/fsck –fy

*****File SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ********

So far so good


/sbin/mount -uw /

System/Library/Extensions

I get a message……………….. –sh:System/library/extensions is a directory

All good I know the .kext reads as a directory
Then I enter

rm -R VoodooHDA.kext
touch /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
reboot

And it goes into panic attack !

Now if I do the same I am told

No such file or directory ( a good thing I think)

What do i do next ?
still having the panic kernel
cannot boot into -x (blue screen)
can boot into -s

Please help the zombie.

 

[malmaaak]

The Zombie returns !

So today i will try the following .

Load multibeast snow leopard onto a bootable disk and see if i can repair what i now suspect to be a missing applehda file.

wish me luck !

 

[malmaaak]

okay been reading and reading.have discovered i am missing my applehda.kext !(see attachment)

can i recover the file that the ApplehdaDisabler deleted or moved ?

still

 

[malmaaak]

The ZOMBIE rides again !

I managed to fix my noob issue !!

here is what i did ......

i realized that i needed to paste three files from a flash drive to replace the files i had erased or damaged.

i downloaded

voodooHDA.kext
AppleHDA.kext
AppleHDADisabler.kext

booted into -s via chameleon

/sbin/fsc –fy
/sbin/mount -uw

This makes root writable

Now to mount the flash drive.......

By going

ls /dev/disk* i list the disks
(finds your USB drive partition usually the last one)

Sweet I see the usb drive as

disk3
disk3s1
disk3s2

I have formatted as flash drive _HFS so to list contents

I presume the three files are in disk3s2


Mkdir /Volumes/usb (create folder to restore data to)

Done !

I get feedback !

Mkdir:/volumes/usb:Read only file system

mount –w –t HFS /dev/[disk#] /Volumes/usb (whereas [disk#] is your usb drive. ie – disk3s2 in my case)

Cool I get

:/root# _ as feed back


For kext’s use this command to copy the kext to my OSX install…

cp -R /Volumes/usb/Example.kext /System/Library/Extensions/


Now to remove a usb drive or external drive,

umount /usb

you should do this first before you "rmdir /usb" - ensure it's cleanly closed

Rmdir /usb (to unmount usb drive)

"rmdir /usb" - ensure it's cleanly closed

And to check - and just in case

Good I think

Okay now reboot

It's a miracle !

Boots up !

all back and working properly !