Hmm... responding to my own emails... >Maybe they > mean it won't boot when it's put on the HD?
Yeah it looks like that is it. I went through the install and when i rebooted after making the changes in OpenFirmware I saw a OS 9 looking screen for a second, but it when ahead and loaded OS X anyway. > Is there any way to boot the cd using the benh kernel but start the text > mode install? Figured it out. :) Since I was able to go through the install, here's what I found: 1.) I had to manually format the Bootstrap partition i had to create or the bootloader wouldn't install. 2.) My video card was incorrectly detected as a GeForce 2 chipset when it is a GeForce 4. It gave me the same invalid argument error that i was getting before when i was trying to use the GUI installer. When i explicitly told it that it was a GeForce 4, X started correctly, but after i pushed the ok button on the dialog in the test my machine hung. 3.) The installer skips the package selection. 4.) After i finished putting my account information in for my pppoe ADSL connection the installer appeared to hang. I went to some of the other terminals to see what was going on and on one it was printing the same two line message over and over again. It was going to fast to make out what it was saying. I had to power off the machine. rob
