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Hey all!

 

My system specs are as follows:

 

P4 2.4ghz Northwood 533FSB

MSI 648 Max Motherboard ( Sis 648 chipset)

1GB DDR-333 ram

Geforce FX 5600

 

(I have removed my NIC card and Wireless card incase they were causing the problems)

 

I am using an external USB drive to boot my installation from. I have a macbook pro which i used to install 10.5.0 to my externa drive, I then applied the patch from http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...atch+retail+dvd. So essentially I am running chameleon, and modbin 9.4.0.

 

I have not touched any kexts other than those applied in the post-patch.sh as I am still trying to get my first boot up going with minimal driver intervention. I have tried vanilla as well as kalyway 9.2.0 kernel - but both did not work. (Vanilla just reboots contiuously, 9.2.0 produced some kernel panics)

 

First off when trying to boot my installation through IDE, i get a Boot:1 error. So i then chucked the drive in an enclosure and attempted to boot from that. I got much further this time, but I stalled at an error which said OCHI controller will be unloaded accross sleep - it was in reference to my USB drive and i believe it was putting it to sleep. After some reading I learnt this was related to USB 2.0, so I disabled USB 2.0 and booted up with USB1.1. I got a bit further this time.

 

Now my system hangs at BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2. I have tried boot flags "-x -f -v, "-x", "-v" and "-v -f" all to no avail. I have let it sit for a good 15-20 minutes now just to be sure, and It seems to be properly hanged.

 

I know my sis 648 chipset is supposed to be hard to get to work, but I believe I have gotten quite far! Im just not sure why my system hangs here. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

P.S, I have also tried adding the combo installer 10.5.5, which produced the same results. To save time in my reformatting and reinstallation I have ommitted the combo until I can successfully boot into Mac OS X.

 

Thanks

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