Strange Issue on some Gigabyte Motherboards

[Suhail]

Hey Chameleon Crew!

First of all, just wanted to say a massive thanks for everything done so far. Chameleon is awesome!
I just wanted to notify you of this issue I am experiencing which could be a bug

Basically I've burnt a copy of cdboot and Preboot.dmg onto a CD (Specifically this one: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184338, it uses an old revision (655) but I've also tried with the cdboot in RC3) and once I put the disk in it boots but then gets stuck on this:

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cdboot: loading................
cdboot: done
Now this happens on the stock CDBoot compiled by the Chameleon Crew distributed on the binary packages for RC3. So I decided to download the sources and compile it myself. My compiled version just reboots after this output (It's real quick so can't see anything past this)

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cdboot: loading..............
So basically here is the skinny version:
Chameleon RC3 - Compiled by Chameleon Team: Stuck at cdboot: done
Chameleon RC3 - Compiled by Me: Reboot Loop
Chameleon r655 - Rebooting Loop

Here is my hardware if it helps:
Mobo: Gigabyte P35-DS3P
Proc: Intel C2D E6550
HDD: 2 x WD 500GB

Hope this helps
- Suhail

[Suhail]

Right I did some more testing on this issue.

I have two computers:
Computer 1: Gigabyte P35 DS3P, Intel C2D E6550, 2 x 500GB HDD and 4GB RAM
Computer 2: Asus P5VDC-X, Intel P4, 160 GB HDD and 512MB RAM

Chameleon RC3 CDBOOT Compiled by Chameleon Crew (From Binary Packages)
Computer 1: Gets stuck on cdboot: done
Computer 2: Boots the GUI like normal

Chameleon RC3 CDBOOT Compiled by me (Using just make)
Computer 1: Computer Reboots instantly after loading CDBOOT
Computer 2: Boots a text based selector

Chameleon r655 CDBOOT
Computer 1: Computer Reboots instantly after loading CDBOOT
Computer 2: Boots the GUI like normal

Some other people have also been having the same issue with some Gigabyte boards as seen in these posts

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=184338&view=findpost&p=1254449
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=184338&view=findpost&p=1254456

The issue doesn't span all Gigabyte boards as some have been having success with getting it to boot. I hope this information helps.

[CHOPPER]

I had this problem and the cause was my IDE dvd-drive, i got a Pata 2 Sata converted and now its fine.

I do get quite a few E-bios error messages before it boots to GUI tho but it still works 

[Suhail]

Well my DVD drive and my 2 hard drives are SATA drives so I don't that is the issue. Also I tried chameleon rc2 and that boots just fine which is even more strange