Snow from Leo install on AMD - need help please

[Rakurai]

Here's my configuration:

 

ECS socket 939 nForce4 motherboard, onboard LAN and SATA (sil3112)

AMD Venice core 3000+

 

LawlessPPC 10.5.4 installation went easily, no problems at all with the LAN, sound, video (after Callisto patch). Had to install on an IDE hard drive, ask Disk Utility wouldn't recognize my SATA drive in the installer (was greyed out), but once Leo was installed I have had no problems using the SATA drive to move files around.

 

I followed the instructions in Vinay's guide (link), using the Chameleon 2.0 RC2 package the guide recommended. First, I installed it on my SATA drive running Leo from my IDE drive, everything appeared to go flawlessly with the install, replacing the boot file, kernel, and kexts. But, when I finished and rebooted, if I picked the Snow volume from Chameleon, the system froze immediately. Trying again in verbose mode, it appears that it loads two HFS+ files [mach_kernel] and then hangs.

 

Thinking that maybe the SATA controller was to blame, I repartitioned my IDE drive, installed Leo, installed Snow Leopard again on the second partition, and now I can't seem to make it load Chameleon from the second partition. However, if I choose Snow from Chameleon 1.0 on my Leo partition, I get the exact same thing. I'm thinking that my SATA isn't really the problem, and that I set up something wrong with Chameleon or my boot file or kernel, but after hours of searching, I can't figure out what's wrong.

 

One thing I'm concerned about, I have two kernels in the root of Snow, one is mach_kernel, the other is mach_kernel.test7, which is what the guide above had me put there. The system appears to default to mach_kernel, but if I explicitly instruct it to use mach_kernel.test7, the results are no different.

 

Any help would be appreciated. I am willing to work for it and go find the answers, I just need some direction Thank you.

[Rakurai]

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