P5Q-E: installer wheel problem

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Hey there,

 

Trying to install Snow Leopard from a retail disc on my P5Q-E.

 

I've setup my Chameleon USB stick, restored my Snow Leopard retail disc to a partition on my hard drive.

 

When I boot up the system (with BIOS settings from here) from the USB stick I get one option: Mac OS X Install DVD.

 

Selecting this I get the grey background with an Apple logo (appears to be a low resolution though) and the grey wheel appears...and that's where it stays. See below:

 

 

A bit stuck now! It's taken me days to get the thing past a kernel panic, which I resolved by updating the BIOS to a recent version and patching the DSDT.

 

Problem with Chameleon? Problem with my partition? BIOS?

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

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I tried putting the EVOEnabler.kext in there for my HD4870 (it's actually a Mac version - so not sure if the kext is required) and my screen goes from the grey spinning progress logo, flicks black (resolution change I guess), goes to:

 

 

Note: with cursor

 

And then 20-30 seconds later I get:

 

 

The spinning beach ball!

 

Has anyone experienced anything similar?

[regisw]

Hello,

 

I have a similar config and issue:

 

Config:

P5Q-E with Juzzi's 2001 bios

ATI HD4870

2 GB memory

IDE DVD reader

 

 

I ended up to create a Boot USB stick (Chameleon 2.0 RC3) with Snow leopard install on it.

 

I do not get to the partitioning menu, I get blocked before. In verbose mode, it just blocks after the Firewire initialization..

 

+ Could you run the install with the flag -v (to get more info ?)

+ Which kexts did you used (in /Extra/ or /Extra/Extensions )

 

As we have the same config, might be nice to work in parallel

 

Cheers,

Régis.