Macintosh Grey Screen of Death
Well at some point over the last week, I updated my mac, and now it won’t boot.
I get a “unable to find driver for this platform: “ACPI”” I have tried the non-invasive steps from this article . (reset pRam, single user mode, etc) all steps result in a panic. And am now thinking I need to go through these steps and re-install the full update?
Does anyone have experience doing this? Can I use a 1GB thumb drive to hold the patch that needs to be applied? Any other tricks people can suggest?
==Archive and Reinstall==
Fallback if below doesn't work... If all else fails, it’s generally recommended to do an archive and install, which is basically a full OS reinstall, but preserves most of your settings. You may have to do things like set up your printers again or enter a few application codes, but other than that, your settings are for the most part intact. The old system folder is renamed to another folder, but is now unbootable (which it was anyway), and can be deleted.
==Solution==
1) Follow steps to re-install the update 10.4.10 from a external hard drive you will need:
df -h /dev/something1 -- -- -- -- /Volumes/My Book << this is my external HDD /dev/something2 -- -- -- -- /Volumes/MacBookPro HDD << this is my internal HDD
hdiutil mount /Volumes/External HDD/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.10Intel.dmg
df -h
or
ls /Volumes
mine was mounted to /Volumes/Mac OS X 10.4.10 Combo Update v1.1 (Intel)
/Volumes/Internal HDD/usr/sbin/installer -pkg /Volumes/Mac OS X 10.4.10 Combined Update...pkg -target /Volumes/Internal HDD