iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5 on GT5426E

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I have some problems with iDeneb v1.3 on my Gateway GT5426E system (see sig for details), although it is up and running for the most part:

• On boot, the screen says there were errors and that it will pause 5 seconds, but then it continues to boot.
  
• It takes about 7 minutes for my PC to boot into OS X: 2 minutes of either the grey/white Apple screen or scrolling messages (depending on whether I use '-v' to boot), then 5 minutes of a black screen (regardless of the '-v'), then a blue screen for about 30 seconds, and then finally OS X.
  
• When I try to save my system profile results to a text file, the system locks up at the very end of the "export".
  
• Firefox crashes regularly, almost every time I use it.
  
• The Darwin boot loader automatically tries to boot my XP partition by default (and fails, so the boot process loops), unless I intervene and choose my OSX86 partition manually, which works as described.
  
• Sometimes shutdowns and restarts work after a blank screen and a pause of a few minutes, and sometimes it never shuts down. (I've tried setting power management in BIOS to S1, S3, and S1 & S3)
  

I chose the latest kernel (9.4 I believe) in the iDeneb custom installation menu. My Marvell Yukon ethernet adapter and nVidia GForce GT7600 256MB video worked right away with the appropriate iDeneb "fixes". But I had to hack my onboard Realtek ALC888 to get it working.

 

Any suggestions on improving the installation or what I've done wrong?

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Some additional information:

• I've installed the Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel, and changed BIOS power management to S3. Boot time still takes about 7 minutes, as described earlier, and rebooting and shutting down seems to behave the same as before.
  
• I have a Logitech G15 keyboard and MX 610 mouse. After installing the Logitech Keyboard Profiler application, the system recognizes the keyboard, but only basic functionality works with the mouse. I installed the Logitech Control Center application, but it says No Logitech Device Found. I also see in my Trash every day a new "Recovered Files #n" folder, which contains a file called com.logitech.lcdmon.501.
  
• After installing OSX86, a Linux partition on another drive (drive 0, IDE) no longer boots and the BIOS just says "OS not installed". On OSX boot, I get a Disk Insertion error that a disk is not readable and must be initialized, and the disk and partitions on which Linux is installed are the only ones not accessible in Finder.
  
• Anytime I copy or work on a large file, the kernel panics.
  
• I also wonder whether I should try to upgrade to 10.5.6 (I don't think iDeneb has this yet, so I would have to use another version, not sure how yet), since it may be more stable. Also, I downloaded a trial version of iWork 09, but it wouldn't install under 10.5.5 (requires 10.5.6).