Having a crippling issue installing the update to take SL from 10.6 to 10.6.8. I've been through the install 6 or 7 times, rebooting at all the right times, exactly as laid out for Sandy Bridge (socket 1155) cpu and everything works fine until I actually install the update and then reboot--then get half black/halfgrey endless OS boot screen with the apple and rotating circle when I boot from the HDD with the SL install.
Booted in verbose and took a snapshot of where it freezes, don't know why it is getting caught up on USB and PCI kexts? There is nothing at all in the (single) PCI slot. Here is my build:
CPU: i7 2600K 3.4ghz
MB: GA-H67N-USB3-B3
HDD: Western Digital 500gb 7200RPM 16mb cache
MEM: Corsair DDR3 1333 8gb XM3
GRAPHICS: No card, attempting to use onboard i7 HD3000 (I know it is not SL supported, but using native until I get a stable build/install, 1024 x7 whatever, fine for now)
Motherboard has one PCI slot and I'm not using it. Couldn't be more simple...HD, CPU, Optical Drive, MB, Ram?? Nothing fancy yet. VGA out the back. Nothing in the USB's except KB and Mouse. Both working 100%, and so is the display.
Help?