Hi Lawless,

I'm back, but with bad news. Now I can't get my USB drive to boot anymore - something happened with mounting the GUID in windows and overwriting it with MBR. Now I can't seem to get disk utility to re-format it with HFS+ no matter how I go about it.

So I plugged in an old IDE drive 80GB Western Digital. I re-ran the install and put it to that disk (no problem formatting or anything) added some custom kext from the menu that I think match my hardware, but I still get the IOWait error on verbose mode booting from any drive. The funny thing is that the one time I got it working off USB drive I could see all of my other media (DVD drive -with the install disk in, and my other 2 HDD SATA). How do I get past this error?

IOKitWaitQuiet() timed out wiating for kernel symbols
AppleNForce found 0 units

Can I patch your install dvd with an additional kext? What is your take on the situation?

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ASUS M2N SLI-Deluxe (nForce 570)
Phenom 9850 (x4) Black Edition
2x1GB G.Skill DDR2 800
2x XFX XXX GeForce 8600GT in SLI
2x 500GB Western Digital SATA
250GB Western Digital SATA
Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 DVD RW