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4,098 reads · 2009-11-14 – 2009-11-18
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Snow Leopard on M3A78-cm

I have an Asus M3A78-cm(same as -em) and an Gigabit K8NF both have the AMD x2 4800. On the PC i have a healthy 10.5.8 leopard system. I have tried Chameleon RC2 and RC3 but both wont boot. My problem is when i boot in normal mode the pc…

Primary Author
@tr33stan Published 2009-11-14
Collection
Snow Leopard 10.6
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4,098 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2009-11-14 – 2009-11-18
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@tr33stan (2)@Imkantus

I have an Asus M3A78-cm(same as -em) and an Gigabit K8NF both have the AMD x2 4800. On the PC i have a healthy 10.5.8 leopard system. I have tried Chameleon RC2 and RC3 but both wont boot. My problem is when i boot in normal mode the pc gets stuck on the Apple logo, without the spinning wheel. If i boot it in Verbose it just boots a few commands then shows a black screen
thanks Tr33

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Author Update #1 @tr33stan 2009-11-18

Iv tried both kernels qoopz and the normal one..but i actually think i found the problem...it was a dl snow leopard with my original disk i can boot

Synthesized Community Field Notes

1 technical responses curated from 3 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @Imkantus 2009-11-16

What Kernel are you using?
Try a different one...

Sources & Contributor Provenance (2 credited usernames · Thread #4729)
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@tr33stanPrimary Author22009-11-14 → 2009-11-18
@ImkantusContributor12009-11-16