I'd still love any direction on getting the iPC release going as it seems pretty comprehensive. However, I have made some good strides with XxX and iDeneb. It seems like the only missing piece was using cpus=1 at the boot prompt. This, along with:

AppleNforceATA
NforceLan
NVInject or EFI strings
Azalia audio

seems to work, with the obvious downside of 3 cores going unused.

Are there any hints as to how to make the system stable without using cpus=1? I get a panic waiting for a thread (going from memory, I'll post the callstack later).

I read I should try updating my BIOS. I also found a thread suggesting installing Chameleon 2.X and a DSTD package. However, to be honest, I'm not sure what roll the boot loaders play, what boot loader is installed with XxX or iDeneb, etc. Should I be able to just install a Chameleon 2.X package along with the DSTD package without messing up the booting?

Thanks again for all the feedback. This has been very helpful and a nice learning experience.

Its reported that a fixed DSDT can help solve panics with Quad Cores. Its just like a file inside the BIOS that contains info about the hardware.
To fix it you would have to extract it from the BIOS, replace it with a fixed one for all cores working and reflash it to the BIOS.
Alternatively you can use a bootloader with DSDT override like Chameleon2, it will let you do the same without risky BIOS reflashing, it just uses a file in the HD as the DSDT table instead of the one from the BIOS, the results are the same. Keep in mind the DSDT is BIOS-specific, up the point it can be different even for same BIOS with a different version (i.e. motherboard x BIOS v1.0 to v1.1).
You should be able to upgrade most bootloaders to Chameleon2 without troubles.

Try this guide in which he usen VMware for installing and the good thing is that he used Nforce 680i sli mobo...:cool:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...&#entry1213791