acermac3: You seem to have PM's disabled, my reply to your PM is below:

I'm not sure what/when you mean "before the kexts loaded". I get the keyboard echoed to the screen after Chameleon says it has loaded a particular kernel, then the names of lots of kexts scroll by, then the system changes (text mode) resolution and starts to initialize various things. I think I see the Firewire get setup, and the keyboard, and near the end of what is shown is a listing of my usb key as the boot device, then there is a line that says"BSD root: disk....." (I'm not at my test system right now, so I'm just going from memory). Then the system just sits there. If I type stuff it appears on screen, but I get no response or prompts. I don't see the disks run or anything. I did try entering some commands, but didn't see anything happen. Whatever is echoing the keystrokes though it does take my pressing 'Enter' as both a Carriage Return and a New Line. That is, if I type something and then hit enter, the next things I type will appear at the begining of the next line on the screen. When I get a chance tonight I will compare this behavior to what I get if I boot my SL installer into Single User mode (-s). Also, tonight I will let you know what is in my /extra directory.