it's booting, but the black screen is back! 
  
i was able to install chameleon on an off-chance safe boot, and to install the kexts in edp. i believe the two it's hanging up on now is the aforementioned intel kext and a mouse driver, but i can't get it to boot so i can change them. 
  
thanks for the help so far, guys! i'm excited to get this rolling!