digicow Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Mobo: Asus P5Q3 Graphics: EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX RAM: 4x2 GB SATA: 750 GB, 1 TB, DVD-RW Currently running OS X 10.5.6 which I installed over a year ago using a prepackaged OS X distribution (I don't recall which one). I'm trying to upgrade it to Snow Leopard (among other reasons, so I can actually sync my iPhone 4). I've looked at various methods for booting a retail copy of SL using Chameleon/PC-EFI on an 8 GB USB drive. The most success I've had was restoring the SL DVD image to the memory stick, and installing just chameleon 2.0RC3 (or chameleon and PC-EFI 10.6) ontop of it. This solution boots to the GUI (verbose boot completes with nothing interesting written to the console), loads a gray screen with the black pointer cursor, which I have control of moving the mouse, and then the cursor changes to the spinning rainbow and never proceeds. I've tried various combinations of kexts(dsmos,fakesmc,applertc), in /Extra/Extensions, but none have produced better results, and some have caused earlier panicing Since it boots without panicing, I'm thinking the issue isn't the bootloader, but I can't see what's going on (no logging available) once that gray screen loads, so I have no idea what's hanging it up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digicow Posted July 19, 2010 Author Share Posted July 19, 2010 is it possible that this could be an issue with encrypted binaries? Are any on the SL installer DVD encrypted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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