I'm sorry for the trouble! Thanks so much for testing this out. I guess BuildSmart was wrong!

I did upgrade my CPU, so now I can try out 64-bit SL.

One thing that drives me crazy, though, is that the vanilla retail scene is changing so rapidly. Are you aware of a recent guide that steps through a retail SL installation? I'd like to use Chameleon RC4, and I *think* I want a hidden EFI partition.

I have Leo installed currently, and I have a new hard drive for SL, and an external USB case.

I think I need to restore the retail DVD to a dmg on my current drive. Then install to the new drive in the USB case. Then install various kexts, Chameleon, my DSDT for SL, and then try booting off the USB drive. If all works, then I swap the drives, and then migrate my data from the old drive.

Does that sound about right?

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MacBook Pro - have allergy to nickel in the aluminum casing. So my kid gets an expensive toy!

Gateway MX 8738 - Retail, vanilla Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (thanks kizwan!) with Chameleon RC4, modified DSDT. Upgraded to Core 2 CPU (easy to do). Upgraded to 640GB drive. Everything but SD card working. Minor niggles. GMA950 with QE/CI and *no* artifacts.

iMac (luxo/lamp) G4 with Tiger.