[mqa]

I should have known better, but I applied the patch to disable sleep on lid close via kismac, and it appears to be incompatable with 10.2.5. How do I know this? Well, the system kernel panics during the initial startup screen (the grey apple one).

My question is this, I am low on hard drive space (~600MB) and as such, I was wondering if it is possible just to replace the appropriate kernel files without doing a complete reinstall of the whole system.

Any help would be apreciated.

[drspock]

In the same vein, has anybody gotten kismac .4c to work with 10.2.5 at all?

[Geobunny]

Turn it on and immediately hold cmd-s to start up in single user mode. Perform the file system consistency check (I think /sbin/fsck -y). Then mount the file system as writeable. I can't remember the command to do that (probably something like /sbin/mount uw / device name )

Now delete the kernel extension from /System/Library/Extensions folder. Be very VERY careful when you're doing the delete command (rm -r kernel extension name) because you are running as root and if you put a space in immediately after a slash (/) you'll end up erasing your entire hard drive.

[mqa]

actually it seems that kismac makes a backup of the kernel when it makes its modifications, so i booted into 9 and switched out the bad kernel. thanks anyway though.

[Geobunny]

What? It actually patches the kernel directly?! That's a bit messy, isn't it?

[mqa]

yes, but i think its less messy than say, sticking a notebook between the keyboard and the lid to keep it from shutting. all i really want to do is listen to mp3s while im on the move, and i havent found any other way besides the notebook technique or kismac to keep my ibook running while its in my bag.