Booting 10.6.3 Retail CD on P5QL-VM-EPU

[bearsomg]

Ok, after searching google for a week trying to solve my problem, I gave up and decided to ask for help here.

So, when I realized that I could get snow leopard for $30 off amazon, I couldn't resist and I was pretty sure my computer would work perfectly fine for a hackintosh. Once I got the cd, I tried many different methods of booting the retail install cd, all to no avail. I Tried Empire EFI, iBoot Supported and ATI, myHack installer on usb hard drive, EP45UD3P Snow Leopard install package, boot-132, netkas' PC EFI 10.5, none of them worked and brought me to the same kernel panic. (picture attached) I have tried safe mode also, but once it's done loading all the kexts it also kps. I tried using many different boot flags, including cpus=1, -f, -x, busratio=20 but none of it works and it still won't boot.

I have heard from my google searches that with ASUS computers you should get a modified bios, but I can't find any for my specific motherboard.


Specs:
ASUS CG5270 Desktop
P5QL-VM-EPU Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300
8GB DDR2 RAM
1TB SATA Hard Drive
SATA DVD Drive
ATI Radeon HD 3470

Trying to Install:
Snow Leopard Retail 10.6.3


Please, I want to do this with my disc, NOT torrent one of the hacked distros.

[BoxcarJim]

I have read that having >4gb of ram can cause problems, try taking out half your ram and see if that fixes it. If it does you should be able to put that half back in after the install is done.

I have pretty much the same setup as you only I have a Q8400 and only 4gb of ram and I can boot off the OS X dvd fine using iBoot supported (Haven't installed it yet because I only have the setup DVD for my MacBook and it wont let me install on my desktop because it doesn't see it as a MacBook).

[bearsomg]

Yes, I have tried that and still haven't been able to get it to work. Although, in the 10.6.2 update didn't they add support for >4gb ram? I really have no idea, but I heard it somewhere

Oh, by the way, if you have access to a mac (you can do a clears install) restore the iboot cd to a flash drive and create an smbios.plist for your macbook and put it in the Extras folder, it will think your computer is a MacBook pro.

[bearsomg]

Problem solved. I had the CG5270, which had the special OEM version of the bios. I ordered a new stock bios chip from biosdepot on ebay, installed it, and everything worked perfectly. Completely vanilla install with hackboot v6 boot cd.