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2,888 reads · 2010-03-14 – 2010-03-17
Note Snow Leopard 10.6 Chameleon / Boot-132

Snow Leo install problem

So I kill my previous snow leo install and then I recovered all my data, wiped my hard drive. I first tried to use a pre-prepared son leo usb drive. Plugged it in, boot the laptop, and pc-efi started up. I entered arch=i386 -v -x then hit…

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@needs_help Published 2010-03-14
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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2,888 historical reads · 0 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2010-03-14 – 2010-03-17
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So I kill my previous snow leo install and then I recovered all my data, wiped my hard drive. I first tried to use a pre-prepared son leo usb drive. Plugged it in, boot the laptop, and pc-efi started up. I entered arch=i386 -v -x then hit enter. It loaded all the kexts then shut down. Same thing happened when I use Empire efi and my previous boot-132 cd. I used the boot 132 disk on all of my last 3 failed osx installs. I cant figure out why it never loads the installer. I tested the usb drive installer on my desktop and it started just fine…any ideas whats wrong?

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Author Update #1 @needs_help 2010-03-17

Help...please

Please some one help...this problem makes no sense. I have never had this problem till now. I don't get why it keeps shutting down after all the kexts load.. :'( :'( :'( : : :

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