boot -v and see what the error is. You probably need kexts for your chipset.

Yeah, the reason I said try with Hazard was because I knew the integrated bootloader included in it will at least boot with the flags I specified on AMD (SB700 anyway). So I think when you installed chameleon on the USB, it modified it.

I never tried Nawcom's boot with a retail DVD, but considering he creates really nice kernels for AMD's, I'm sure it is the best way to go.

Sorry this is giving you so much trouble. Stick with it...the payoff is pretty fun! I'd pick up some more blank DVDs if getting the USB drive to boot is giving you trouble.

I appreciate the help folks, just keep a subscription on this thread so you'll know when i reply.

Im still trying to get some blanks.

Hey folks finally got some blank DVDs

Gonna try this again tonight just as soon as my files are done backing up.

Heres what im doing.

I burned the Hazard 10.6.6 DVD , when i put it in no matter what flags i boot with nothing will get it to the installations screen.

I put in the nawcomm CD and it gets my to the installation, has stuff preselected too (except a bootloader like chameleon)

I use nawcom and everything says it installed fine, but when i reboot, im stuck at the apple logo with a kernel panic

==============

Also tried Hazard 10.62

cant get it to boot with flags

Tried the nawcom CD with it and the screen went crazy and stopped

=============

Heres the flags i try
-v
-v -x
arch=i386 busratio=20 or 16 -v
arch=i386 busratio=20 or 16 -v -x
busratio=20 or 16 -v

I hate the still waiting for rood device error lol

After you install with nawcom do you boot with nawcom? You may still need to boot with nawcom until you get everything setup to boot with chameleon. So try booting with nawcom after you installed it.

Other boot commands you might have to try:
-f
-v
-force64
busration=xx
cpus=x
maxmem=4096
arch=i386

but you should be able to boot with the nawcom boot cd without any problems. I personally have to boot with -force64 but that's it. You may not even need a boot flag.

How do you boot with the nawcomm CD

When it usually starts up i have the option to swap out the CD with leopard and a few other things that i never tried.

Do i use boot flags?

sigh.
Just tried booting with the nawcomm CD.

Heres the thing, i can boot from a CD with all my ports set to SATA in my BIOS with no problem, when i install a OS it won't let me, but if i change it to IDE i can boot into the CD

So, i installed it and let nawcomm select everything.
Then i tried booting with the CD, it skips the CD, even tho my CD drive botos first and i tried manually selecting it via F12, no luck.

Change my port 4-5 to IDE and the CD boots up, but , now im getting a "Still waiting for root device" message

I use IDE mode. It works perfectly fine. You might want to try AHCI mode for your SATA. If not, IDE should work. When you boot from the nawcom cd, you put it in, boot form cd, select the hard drive partition with mac osx on it, and thats all. You may want to enter some boot flags to get it working but try none at first. If that doesn't work you will have to reinstall. Check my other post to see how I got mine working. It may help.

http://osx86.co/f57/trouble-booting-...173/page2.html

thanks ill try and install it with IDE mode