[iamwiz82]

Background: retail 10.5.6 updated to 10.5.7, used old Windows-Only method as I had no other Mac to play with.

After updating to NetbookInstaller from DellEFI I broke something with my OSX installation. On reboot, I got the following kernel panic. I tried getting in via safe mode, no luck. I deleted the Extra folder via the USB boot to the Install disk, no luck.

Any other ways to recover this without a reinstall?

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00434A1F): "Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\".\n"@/SourceCache/
xnu/xnu-1228.12.14/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1407
Debugger called: <panic>
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
<a bunch of HEX locations>
Backtrace terminated-invalic frame pointer 0


BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Unknown

Mac OS version:
Not yet set
Kernel version: Darwin 9.7.8
Darwin Kernel Version/RELEASE_1386
System uptime in nanoseconds

[iamwiz82]

Hrm.... So I gave up and reinstalled OSX with success, updated to 10.5.7, ran NetbookInstaller from the get go, instead of DellEFI ->NBI. After the .7 update I ran NBI again, generated the dsdt.aml file and...

Kernel Panic Normal boot, safe mode, no luck

[scififan68]

It's a corrupt dsdt.aml delete that file from Extra and it should boot.

[iamwiz82]

I tried blowing away the dsdt.aml, but I still got the same kernel panic. I also removed the /Extra folder with no luck.

After more testing, it is always after the 10.5.7 upgrade and then NetBookMaker. If I keep it 10.5.6 with NBI it runs ok, other than no sleep. If I run 10.5.7 with DellEFI it runs fine minus sound.

[iamwiz82]

Just confirmed with my latest install of a clean OSX with NBI that blowing away the dsdt.aml file does not help.

[shines on]

If there is a dsdt.aml on the root of your hdd, delete that one as well and then try regenerating with netbook installer.

In the terminal:
sudo rm -f /dsdt.aml

[iamwiz82]

I'd love to try that, but I am afraid of another very, very long restore process

As it stands I have 10.5.6 via NBI working Ok. Sound quality is awful and sleep completely blows up the machine.

[hjhart]

Ugh. I'm dealing with the same exact problem. In order to try and delete my adst.aml file, I transferred my install DVD to my USB stick, ran NetBootLoader, and opened terminal within the Installation.

Running the command: rm -f /Extras/asdt.aml gave me a read-only error, and running the command: sudo rm -f /Extras/adst.aml gave me a command not found (sudo) error.

What am I doing wrong?

[hjhart]

Resolved, but still unsure:

I was able to run the NetBookInstaller inside of the MacOSX Installation (patched with NetBookMaker, obviously).

It was version 0.81. I ran it to overwrite the adst.aml file (I think that was the important setting to change) and it worked on the next boot.

I tried running 0.82 NBI and 0.83 NBI RC3 and everytime I got very sad mac computer. Everytime I was able to fix it by running 0.81 again.

If someone wants me to run tests on my computer or submit a bug to trac, I will be happy to do so. I can't figure out why I can't get 0.83 RC3 or 0.82 NBIs to work.

James