I am not seeing the same settings in the customize screen. How did you get that set?

My installed system is vanilla hazard. i have installed no kexts. Thats my next challenge.
Can you explain how you did it?

I wonder if we have different versions of hazar's snow leopard? I'm using snow leopard server client 10.6.2. After formatting the drive, I go to the screen where you are ready to install. On the left bottom of the screen, there is a "customize" button, I click on it and all the options are there. You have click on the little arrow to open the subfolders under each category. I got this screenshot from leo hazard's site, but it's the same one I used.

http://www.leohazard.com/images/Final10.6.1-2.jpg

I think i will do a fresh install and hopefully my audio and reboot/shutdown will work. After that, my next challenge is how to add an entry to my grub bootloader to boot snow leopard. Let me know if it helps.

my sata dvd drive is not recognized. Are you having the same issue?

You have same bios as me. You need to set ahci in southbridge if you set combined mode you sata dvd drive mist be in one of first 4 ports, otherwise disable combined mode. but you also need to select 1st boot device as sata/dvd. in my bios it showed both ide and sata cd/dvd boot drive options. i had one of each and it was set to ide/cd-dvd so it ignored my sata dvd drive. perhpas you have the same issue - its set to ide cd/dvd.

I didnt see the sub-menus in the settings. Good spot - my stupidty i will check.

I just did another re-install and still having audio issues despite the fact that I chose the audio patch which matched my audio chipset. I'm still having issues with restart/shutdown, which is frustrating. I will keep trying and report back.

With my new understanding of the settings what i was selecting that worked was all kernels and all cmos fixes. To this i added ati drivers and alc889a audio.

No difference when booted up. Still no audio output device. Restart worked fine. I still only have 1280x1024 resolution offered - i have a 2560x1600 monitor. It identifies my graphics adapter as radeon 4890. I think it is xfx 4830 or 50 definitely not 90.

main problem seems to be just no audio seems stable and reliable

i am booting sl from the hazard boot loader. I would like to dual boot with windows 7 but without more research i dont know how to. Whether its as simple using easybcd to add and entry for osx to the windows MBR?????? etc. any ideas?

I will try your suggestion. As far as multiboot, I've read a few tutorial about dual booting windows 7 & mac and it seems pretty easy. Actually during the install, I think you can select to install cameleon which will let you boot both operating systems. I havent read much about cameleon, so cant really offer more concrete information. I also noticed that it didnt recognize my video card (radeon 4650). Instead it shows as radeon 2600 series, and it only shows it has 256mb of memory when my card has 1gb.

cottage1909,

By any chance did you run "Marvin's AMD Utility" to patch your system? I tried running it but it keeps freezing? So you installed all kernels and all cmos patches? I wonder if that wouldnt cause a kernel panic since you are installing all of them?

uhm my specs are
phenom 9950
m3a78-em
sb600
780g
alc1200
hd4850
sata hard drive.

what do i need to select after i click custom install.

I would recommend an external DVD drive. Get an ATA to USB device and an ATA DVD drive (Burner would be of more use) You have something to fall back on if you need it.