Mcdond,
You must be overlooking something. If we have the same laptop, heck, even with ANY core2duo this tutorial should work (except gfx, sound etc) but it should be able to boot.
Bios to AHCI
First of all, you must chose 1 decrypter, I used apple decrypt, you could try dsmos... and I think the Disabler is also mandatory for system boot.
When installing, never simply overwrite install over a previous version !! never! Erase drive, or better, re-partition it (1 partition or 2 for dual boot)
When DVD/USB boots, go into disk utility and erase/partition, the continue install.
GUID + hfs journalled, we covered that...
Then, continue install, and customize. At the end the green tick appears and it asks to reboot.
Reboot. When Chameleon shows up with the countdown bar, press any key, the countdown will stop.
now write "'-v -f" and press enter. Be sure you read the bottom left corner before pressing enter to be sure it is well written. Without the " " !!
This boots in verbose mode, where you can see the code flying through.
If there is a kernel panic, take a picture and post, its the only way to know where it is hanging. Otherwise, some timeouts take alot of time to go through, be patient.
Osx is quite fidly to install, but once there... it is well worth it !
I am working on the sound issue, and if I get it working dandy, I could make an image install of my system and upload it somewhere. That would be even easier than reading tutorials
