that is weird.

I know

and I can't edit the com.apple.Boot.plist

Use Smultron, it's free. It will let you edit such files and save your changes.

TextEdit will not.

yeah, thanks, smultron worked great

but putting cpus=4 didn't do anything...

edit: here's a picture of -v with chameleon from my drive:

http://i44.tinypic.com/20jr7n4.jpg

Hi SportsGuy,

this is really strange, you should be running vanilla, unpatched kernel without any problems. I dont think that here you have processor issue. What is your motherboard? What's in your logs when you used vanilla kernel and it restarted? Do you use vanilla AppleACPIPlatform ?

I still think its not the processor. It requires further investigation.

Regards!

It is a Dell Studio Desktop 540, I'm not positive what board it has, but in the setup, it says it is American MegaTrends

I have installed iPC many times and have only installed the os, with nothing else


Thanks for the support!

I still haven't gotten this to work...

Sportsguy,

Lucky that you posted your screen. A picture is worth a thousand words.
You do need Chameleon 2 RC1 and DSDT. Here's why.
This is a typical boot screen of most motherboards out there before DSDT. There's a line in BIOS called CPU alias that most firmware writters neglect because it's not important for Windows or Linux but OS X needs to know what the system is. For all OSX86ers that have a forum for modded BIOSes, they have it easy. Now comes DSDT. When your system is optimzed by this program, it writes the entire hardware component list on your HD root, acting as a BIOS mapping instruction that Chameleon can translate easily.
Contrary to your belief, Chameleon can handle boot flags with no problem. With the latest RC release, which is GUI, you can select what partition to boot and type in the boot flags. The flags will appear on the bottom of the boot screen.
Recap: once you have your system up the old way, install Chameleon, then DSDT. Run DSDT to optimize your board. Reboot. You'll be surprised.
You can also use PCWiz OSXTools to residentially create boot flags GFX strings to further customize your your boot parameters.
Good luck

Not to knock this off topic, but my Chameleon isn't showing anything at the bottom. I either have to use the boot menu or type it in blind and hope I didn't typo.
Could it be the Boot Camp theme I'm using on it?

So I installed Chameleon 2, and then ran DSDT from PCWiz, and still nothing... I get the same thing

Do I need to write boot flags to Chameleon somehow?