Kernel panic on boot: pre-install.

I followed This guide To set up a USB flash drive snow leopard install disk. I get the apple logo and the spinning gray loading icon and a darker shade of gray wraps over the screen and a dialog box says "you need to restart your computer".

The only part of the guide that I have not followed verbatim is the adjustments made in the BIOS. I know that these are important but I have a very different bios- mine says "Phoenix - AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility" at the top. As a result, I don't know where to change what.

I have:
XFX 680i mobo
4gb 800mhz ram
Intel q9550
XFX NVIDIA GTX 260

And a kingston 8GB flash drive.. not any kind of funky cruzer or whatever else.

Can anyone offer some advice? I'm pretty sure my problem is not changing the BIOS settings that I need to change. I have googled and browsed this forum for the correct steps to take but it seems no one has written the BIOS setup guide for my BIOS, and I don't understand what changes need to be made and why in order to figure it out on my own.

i have the EXACT same problem.

86 views and none of you know anything about the required bios settings?

Admittedly, some of those were mine checking for replies :)

bump for great justice?

What are you getting when you -v?

I'm having the same problem as well. I put together a similar system using the Lifehacker snow leopard instructions and parts. I think my problem is due to a system crash during a re-install.
It seems like the most important piece of the puzzle is the motherboard. If you didn't go with the GB EP45 board i don't think you can expect the same smooth results. I actually had mine running the first time around but had stability issues, most likely due to incorrect memory settings in the bios.
I'd check http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/in...#10.6.0_Guides
to see if anyone has done anything similar with your mobo.