Trouble reaching installer

[_dp]

I'm having problems getting to the installer.

 

I'm using "Boot CD 1.6" from the AMD install tutorial thread but the Snow Leopard 10.6.7 installer DVD instead of retail. (I've actually got the retail disc too but I'm pretty sure I reached these same errors either way.)

 

My specs are as follows:

MSI 870a-G54 mobo

Phenom X2 555 BE @ 3.8GHZ

8GB DDR3 1333

AMD HD 6850 1GB

60GB Vertex 2e Primary

2x250GB Storage

 

Without any boot flags I get the following error

Blurry fullscreen version here.

I have a feeling this one might be linked to my 6850 maybe?

 

 

I've tried the following flags to get it to work after this error but got a new one: -x -v -m legacy GraphicsEnabler=no

The new error (it freezes at this point):

The big blurry version of this one

Would the pcirootuid=x flag possibly fix this one? I have no idea how to find out my pcirootuid without osx installed before hand though...

 

So there it is chaps. I hope I've posted all information possible.

 

Ideas?

 

Thanks.

 

Edit -- looking into it a little more, it turns out it might be due to my graphics card? I've got a spare 8600GT in another machine I can swap out temporarily but what about after that? Can I set up the 6850 while the 8600GT is inserted? Otherwise I unfortunately don't see that using osx86 is an option with that old card :/

[_dp]

I managed to install it with a bizarre method after deciding that I wouldn't be able to boot into an installer normally with my 6850. I managed (after much hassle) to get a prebaked snow leopard iso running on vmware in windows, mounted the target drive with iscsi and did the whole installtion within the Snow Leopard VMware session! (If you're interested in doing this, you might find VMware starts throwing out errors about the iscsi drive when modifying it via disk utility, if so, go to disk management in windows, right click on the drive in question and choose offline, seemed to work for me. Just click continue in vmware when it's offline)

 

Granted that it won't boot without a bootdisc and I haven't set any kexts up at all, I was pretty impressed with myself

 

I can only boot into safe mode but I think the fact that I installed the ati graphics update which someone made for the 6000 series allowed me to get that far. I hope that if I install the update for 10.6.7, I'll be able to do it without safemode and hopefully get full acceleration. I'm already getting the correct resolution and dual screen support.

 

Nice!

 

Let's hope it keeps going so well

[_dp]

Things are going fairly well still. My mouse doesn't appear to be working but I've found a fix which I'll try tomorrow.

 

Video seems fully working now. I have the transparent bar at the top. Ethernet working but no sound yet, despite installing what seemed to be the correct package.

 

The biggest problem seems to be that it takes an ABSOLUTE age for everything to load up. I still haven't been able to set up a proper boot loader on the drive (due to lack of mouse) so hopefully that will fix the problem.

 

Is there a way to see what's going on behind the scenes when the initial blue screen shows? That's the real time killer, it must take 5-10 minutes for the desktop to pop up.

 

Oh and if I've already installed a kext for sound and want to try another one, how would I go about replacing the old one? Just install the new one? Manually remove the old one? Or just leave the old one there?

 

Thanks.