What partition scheme were you planning on using alternatively?

Something to note about the sleep function: I am pretty sure my computer never makes it all the way to sleep. My fans stay on and my ipod will continue charging even though my display is off. When I sleep my macbook my ipod stops charging (potential usb issue?). I thought that the problem was getting my computer to wake back up, but I don't think its sleeping to begin with.

I try to install SL in a blank 2.5" HD that i have inside my desktop yesterday from Leopard running on a partition on another hard drive that contains my data and the OS only. All went pretty good until l had to figure out my Video card EFI string because I don't know how to get it from my Radeon 4850. I copied another string from someone else and continued the process and boot but i am stuck in the apple logo with the wheel under. It just stays turning. Could someone please help me, I really don't know anything about programming or terminal but after doing research about the 4850 2 methods to get the EFI im still confused.

i am using the 4870, no efi or kext needed anymore thanks to pc efi boot file from netkas (netkas.org, you will learn a lot).

boot with the -v flag for verbose mode (in your /extra/com.apple.boot.plist or at the boot prompt) so that you can see where you are getting stuck and post the result here.

prior to the built-in fix for the 48x0 cards from netkas i was using the evoenabler.kext which was working well. I think you can find that on netkas' site as well.

Thank u msf5042 I will try that tomorrow. But that means that I don't have to write nothing where the EFI goes? Do I just leave it blank?

I attached my /Extra folder and my boot file (which goes in the / directory after unzipped -- it is just the latest version of pc efi). These files should be all you need.

Open the /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist with a text editor and change the "Graphics Mode" to the one that fits your display and replace my smbios file with yours. I am not sure if my dsdt.aml file will work for you, try it out though.

Let me know how it works out for you.

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Hey sorry you also have to put your uuid and busratio in the com.apple.boot.plist

Can anyone tell what is dsdt.aml used for? So can I said that e dsdt.aml in e first page only works for EVGA motherboard? not for other brand motherboard?

No it won't work for your board, google DSDT PATCHER and read some tutorials, it's one of the more important files in your setup

Hi msf5042, actually my motherboard is EVGA x58 micro. So to create the FINAL dsdt.aml, firstly use DSDT patcher GUI to create e dsdt.aml, then follow the step 6 of 1st page tp get e compiled dsdt?

Am i right?