keepfrosty:

Hi,

DSDT and Chameleon with SMBIOS patches is actually a modified chameleon bootloader (by mackerintel); it replaces chameleon's 'boot' file in the root of the installation partition with modified one. While booting it looks first for dsdt.aml in your root folder and smbios patches option lets you use vanilla smbios just with adequate strings in your com.apple.boot.plist. This way you can fix/add various things with dsdt and avoid using smbiosresolver or smbiosefi injectors. If you don't have strings added (or dsdt.aml) placed where bootloader is expecting them, it is just ignored, and it will work just as regular chameleon bootloader does.

So the cause that your system fails to boot is maybe wrong chipset driver (I just suspect). To clear this all out, try searching for solution/experiences with nforce4 chipset and IDE drive. I don't have such a system so i can't tell for sure. You can check what other guys with similar or the same motherboard said and how they succeeded making their systems work.

Hope it helps a bit.

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