Necessary SL files - bare bones install

Alright, so this is somewhat complicated...
I am attempting a minimal install of Snow Leopard. Here is what I have done so far:
- Activated ownership on a second hard drive.
- Installed the BaseSystem.pkg, Essentials.pkg, and BootCamp.pkg onto that hard drive.
- Copied Setup Assistant from a pre-existing install to my new install (which is needed to setup the computer on the first boot.
- Copied the pkg receipts from a pre-existing install to the new install.
- Used the bless command to create the boot.efi file and specify the /System/Library/CoreServices folder as the boot root.
- Fixed the file permissions.
- Reboot
The kernel boots successfully, but once it loads the GUI I get a grey screen with the beach ball of doom. So obviously I am missing something.
Any ideas?

The kernel boots successfully, but once it loads the GUI I get a grey screen with the beach ball of doom.
If you are saying that you never get past the grey screen then it is safe to assume the GUI has not loaded.
As was suggested both here & in your other topic, it is much, much easier to do a normal install & then carefully prune away the unneeded stuff to get a minimal install. In fact, just by installing the Essentials.pkg, you have already installed a lot of items that are not essential to the purpose you explained (more or less) in your other topic.
Tip: to see the items a .pkg file contains, you can double-click on it to launch Installer.app. Then go to the File menu & select "Show Files." Do that with Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg & you will see that it contains what Apple considers the essential OS X applications, like Dictionary, Photo Booth, Preview, Image Capture, & many others, plus the support files for them.
By doing a normal install, you will avoid permissions problems, insure that everything is properly linked & installed in the correct order (which matters!), get an accurate receipts database, & so on. You even get a few options to avoid installing many of the .pkg's like the large number of printer ones, some of the language ones. You can then use the suggestions I made in your other topic to prune much more.
Your current method is a bit like trying to build all the floors of an office building at once instead of floor by floor.

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