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Hi,

I had used the Snow Leopard retail instructions posted on lifehacker:

http://lifehacker.com/5351485/how-to-build...start-to-finish

 

To the letter, with a 60gb USB/SATA2 drive serving as the install medium. After creating the USB installer image, I booted, and ended up with the apple logo + spinner.. With boot -v and alt-v, I saw the boot proceed down to the initialization of my marvell gigabit NIC (AppleYukon2), then it hung. I assume I'm missing drivers, but I'm not sure how to go about putting them on the USB image.. Has anyone else installed an i7 setup with SL from scratch and can offer any hints/tips/docs?

 

Hardware:

* DFI T3H6 mobo w/i7 920 CPU, 6GB RAM

* 2x1.5TB drives on internal SATA, configured AHCI

* LG Bluray burner (disconnected after I saw failures to initialize on the display)

* Sapphire 4870 GPU w/1GB RAM

 

I went thru the Chameleon RC3 doc/ files, but they're a bit thin, not going into a lot of detail on how/where to put drivers based on platform.. I also see the 'Optional Extras' directory, is that supposed to be copied over to USB as the 'Extras' directory?

 

TIA!

To quickly find out if it's the Marvell LAN causing the lockup, disable it in the BIOS and try again.

 

If the lockup still happens it must be something else.. and maybe you'll see a different message before it locks up.

To quickly find out if it's the Marvell LAN causing the lockup, disable it in the BIOS and try again.

 

If the lockup still happens it must be something else.. and maybe you'll see a different message before it locks up.

 

Much obliged, I'll give that a shot.. I do see a message after the driver's initialized that it detects the interface correctly (shows mac address, shows 1 gigabit link, etc) but maybe after that it locks :)

 

I disabled the onboard ethernet, no love :)

 

I noticed that when booting with -v I got a SLOT-1 message while with -v -x I didn't.. Could it be the 4870 card? I'm using the boot file from netkas.org (PCI EFI v10.4_1):

 

bash-3.2# pwd

/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD

bash-3.2# ls Extra

.DS_Store OldExtensions.mkext.zip

DSDT.aml Themes

Extensions.mkext com.apple.Boot.plist

LegacyATI4800Controller.kext smbios.plist

bash-3.2# ls -l boot

-rw-r--r--@ 1 _unknown _unknown 309344 Oct 17 11:28 boot

I hate chiming in like a barking dog, but..

 

Why did you use the Lifehacker guide? And how?

The guide clearly states you must use the noted hardware, it's what made it a guide.

 

To be helpful I'll point out what I know.

- Stellarola made that build.

- It is specifically setup for the mobo stated. P45, sound chip, etc. (It even fails on mobos almost exactly like it from Gigabyte)

- Install was definitely not intended for ATI card, although some have gotten it to work.

 

From your build it sounds like you're starting from scratch.

You need to find out what chipsets are on that board, see if anyone knows how to

get those bits working and build it mostly from scratch.

 

There are those here that might be able to help though!

Good luck

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