hang on boot/success on reboot

[hish747]

I'm experiencing some strange boot behavior. Here are the symptoms. If I start the computer normally from an off state the boot never finishes and I get the circle slash no disk think. However, I can start in safe mode with -v -x and if I reboot the computer in normal mode it starts up perfectly.

 

Here are the machine specs:

Supermicro X7DAL-E

Dual Xeon X5460 CPUs

nVidie 7900GS w/256mb

8GB FB-Dimm

60GB OCZ Agility 2 SSD.

 

using OSX 10.6.8

myhack (Retail 10.6.3) install but then used ###### to startup, update to 10.6.8 and then install ######.

 

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Hish