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That seems to be the issue. Just ordered a USB wireless card. I'll ask again just for the heck of it, is there anything I can do so I don't hjave to boot in from my external HDD? Would it be possible to make a bootable USB and just boot from there as an alternate option?

I was able to successfully boot in from my USB drive. Is there anything that can be done to fix this issue now that I'm in so that I don't need to boot in from my drive anymore? EDIT: Everything working besides Wifi. Ethernet seems to work fine, but Wifi will not even show up as an option.

It is an Intel Graphics Card. Is that a major issue? I saw plenty of posts from people who got it to work.

Didn't seem to make a difference. Sorry if this is an inconvenience, but I do appreciate your trying to help. I took out the WLAN card last night, that seemed to make some difference in the boot process but it ultimately ended with the endless boot cycle again.

When I boot with the -v bootflag, it seems to reboot once all the files are read. At least that's what I think, it instantly shuts down not really giving me a warning about when it's coming up. It definatly runs through a lot of pages of reading files, though. Any ideas? EDIT: Tried all kinds of boot flags. Opened up my laptop to see if there was an extra wireless card, can't seem to get to it. Does anybody have the BIOS settings necessary for this specific system?

Hello! First, just want to say thanks for the very helpful guide. I got Mavericks installed with no problems thanks to it. But, since finishing the install and rebooting, I keep getting a loop error. I tried restarting per a specific installation of software. Now I just get to the boot screen wheres it's loading, goes blank for a second, then restarts all together. I checked if there is a wireless card inside messing up the boot sequence but nope. Please help!