jrkilroy Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Hello All, I spent my weekend trying to get Snow Leopard installed on an extra drive on my system. I am using a USB stick install. I can get the stick to boot, chameleon comes up fine, in verbose mode I get line after line of stuff. Eventually, I end up with a black screen right about the time I expect the installer to load. I am thinking this is possibly a video issue, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Here is some supporting information: Chameleon 2.0 RC3 My old Leopard system that I used to build my USB loader is a G5 tower. The system I am installing to: EVGA x58 SLI, latest BIOS EVGA 260 Superclock Installing to separate 500GB esata drive. I have not tried a unique EFI string as I can't figure out how to generate on the new computer without a leopard install. I also haven't touched the DSDT for the same reason. Any suggestions? I've tried all the guides I can, and my Google-Fu is starting to send me back to the same forum threads. Thank you for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrkilroy Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 One bump before I throw in the towel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohizzle121 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Hello All, I spent my weekend trying to get Snow Leopard installed on an extra drive on my system. I am using a USB stick install. I can get the stick to boot, chameleon comes up fine, in verbose mode I get line after line of stuff. Eventually, I end up with a black screen right about the time I expect the installer to load. I am thinking this is possibly a video issue, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Here is some supporting information: Chameleon 2.0 RC3 My old Leopard system that I used to build my USB loader is a G5 tower. The system I am installing to: EVGA x58 SLI, latest BIOS EVGA 260 Superclock Installing to separate 500GB esata drive. I have not tried a unique EFI string as I can't figure out how to generate on the new computer without a leopard install. I also haven't touched the DSDT for the same reason. Any suggestions? I've tried all the guides I can, and my Google-Fu is starting to send me back to the same forum threads. Thank you for your help -x mode is safe mode with no vid drivers needed. make your dsdt and EFI string mods then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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