pewe1263 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 A beginners question maybe but, does anyone know how to get to the hd after booting from an USB boot. I screwed up my HD settings and now the system hangs. I've got to get to the extras folder on the hd .... thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 20, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 20, 2014 You can boot OS X from an external HDD connected to USB, no problem on that front. If you do that, you would normally be able to see your internal HDD and do whatever you want with (eg: add/remove kexts from /E/E and run myfix on it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewe1263 Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 i've got only an install usb and when booting from USB I can not get to the folders. I have to select a language and have then certain limitations on utilities. Just disk utility, no finder or the likes of it ... and all the folders are greyed out as if the user has no auth to the folders. ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 21, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 21, 2014 Try to repair permissions on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 21, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 21, 2014 did you try using myhack utility from the utilities menu to add your extra back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewe1263 Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 This has been solved by some bash commands, mounting the hd and removing the e/e folder so the boot/reboot worked again after that. Thx for all the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 22, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 22, 2014 Presence/absence of /E/E has no direct incidence on boot process on a myHack installation, unless myFix is run afterwards of course... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewe1263 Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 yep, you are correct, it was the display settings i was fooling around with and rendered the system to be unbootable. Well at least until the load of the BT stuff there it got stuck. Before I deleted the extra folder (and most likely a myfix) rebooted and started in slow motion mode and some low resolution. Then I used the cham wiz to set the 1366*768 and did a reboot where it than got to the forementioned hang just after the BT load. Rebooting with option -s I thought, getting a bash prompt, mounted the hard disk and where I probably deleted some file(s) from the extra folder and got it back to boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 22, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 22, 2014 Deleting /Extra is totally different from deleting /Extra/Extensions: on top of the latter, the former also includes DSDT (if applicable) and Chameleon boot plist + SMBIO plist. Graphics related boot options such as GraphicsEnabler are stored in boot plist, so this is more likely where you action had an immediate effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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