I used Zeph's ASUpdater to install 10.5.4 on my 10.5.2 system, first I installed the 9.4.0 kernel without the update and the system worked fine, but after downloading and patching the 10.5.4 update and installing the boot hangs at this message:

MAC Framework successfully initialized
using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster io buffer headers

Using -f -x -s results in the same thing, any suggestions or help would be great! I can access the drive to get the log but I don't know where it's located on the disk.

System is:
Mobo: ASUS A8N-SLI SE
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3800
Gfx: PNY Geforce 7300GS