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Old 09-07-2009, 11:00 PM
Rootus Rootus is offline
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Thanks for posting the guide.

I'm having a problem, if you have any ideas I'd really appreciate them -- I'm kinda stumped, and I don't know where to go from here. SL boots from USB, goes through the usual text bits about kext loading and stuff (using -v -x32 as boot options, have also tried safe mode but it just panics if I do that), and then it switches into graphical mode. I get a light blue screen, which turns after a few seconds into a light gray screen, and the mouse cursor changes from an arrow to a beach ball, and it never escapes from beach ball hell. Spins, spins, spins, for as many hours as I care to leave it.

FWIW, an install of SL that I did from within Leopard also hangs at a particular point, though it's before going graphical, and it also never recovers. Slightly different outward behavior, but the hang is consistent.

My setup -- Asus P5K-VM, Intel Q6600, 8GB RAM, nvidia 9600 GT 512MB, 1.5 TB SATA drive (Seagate; dual partitions, both under a TB), 250GB SATA drive (WD) with Leopard 10.5.6, and a SATA DVD writer. Everything works great using Leopard.

Software -- SL retail disc (okay, the $29 "upgrade" disc rather, seems retail to me), Chameleon RC2 build 640, EFI 10.1 boot. Tried with all the kexts in this guide, also tried simplifying to just dsmos based on a post from someone else who got things working on a P5K series board with just that.

Thoughts? I'd really like to get this installed, I'm hoping it will give me a bit more efficient utilization of the quad core CPU. I've got it running on my real Macs and I'm hooked on the new version of Mail (bye bye Outlook, wasn't nice knowing you, won't miss you, etc ).

Last edited by Rootus; 09-07-2009 at 11:53 PM.
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