Diskutil Issues on 10.6

[kmand]

I'm using the Myhack installer (http://osx86.sojugarden.com/installer) to try and get 10.6 going on a Dell Latitude D610. This is an SSE2 machine, so I use the "chocolate kernel".

 

The installation always ends up hanging right at the beginning of the installation, while its trying to unmount or check the hfs+ partition on the hard drive. Since I can't really tell what the install is doing, and I can get to a terminal before the install starts, I decided to see if I can reproduce the issue from the command line.

 

The hard drive is disk0.

 

First I "dd" /dev/zero to the first 1000 blocks of the drive to wipe out the label.

 

Then I do

 

diskutil partionDisk disk0 GPTFormat "Journaled HFS+" part1 100%

 

this succeeds and shows

 

0 GUID_partition_scheme 60GB disk0

1 EFI 209GB disk0s1

2 Apple_HFS part1 59.7GB disk0s2

 

Since I know the install would hang checking the disk I now do that manually.

I umount /dev/disk0s2 then

 

diskutil repairVolume disk0s2

 

This gives me 8 lines of checking various things and then tell me the volume is ok and the repair is complete.

But then goes on to say "Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required".

 

This gives me an endless sequence of "\ \ \ \ \ ..." going across the screen. Since the actual install has an endless horizontal barber poll, I think this is the ascii equivalent, and may be my hang in the install.

 

This is where am I stuck and can use suggestions.

 

By the way the same hardware works reasonable well on 10.5 (using a different install method).