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Originally Posted by SportsGuy
yeah, thanks, smultron worked great
but putting cpus=4 didn't do anything...
edit: here's a picture of -v with chameleon from my drive:

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Sportsguy,
Lucky that you posted your screen. A picture is worth a thousand words.
You do need Chameleon 2 RC1 and DSDT. Here's why.
This is a typical boot screen of most motherboards out there before DSDT. There's a line in BIOS called CPU alias that most firmware writters neglect because it's not important for Windows or Linux but OS X needs to know what the system is. For all OSX86ers that have a forum for modded BIOSes, they have it easy. Now comes DSDT. When your system is optimzed by this program, it writes the entire hardware component list on your HD root, acting as a BIOS mapping instruction that Chameleon can translate easily.
Contrary to your belief, Chameleon can handle boot flags with no problem. With the latest RC release, which is GUI, you can select what partition to boot and type in the boot flags. The flags will appear on the bottom of the boot screen.
Recap: once you have your system up the old way, install Chameleon, then DSDT. Run DSDT to optimize your board. Reboot. You'll be surprised.
You can also use PCWiz OSXTools to residentially create boot flags GFX strings to further customize your your boot parameters.
Good luck