Nik17 Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 So i attempted to install leopard using the guide found here and seemingly disaster struck. I followed all of the steps including partitioning the drive and installing leopard but after leopard installed it said the computer would restart in 10 seconds but when it did restart i got which i now know to be a "kernel panic." After this kernel panic i tried finding a solution on my iphone but could not find one so i changed my active partition back to my windows parition (2) and repaired some files and came back here. I would really love to install leopard on my pc, but i am not sure what i did wrong as it seemed everythiong went well until rebooting my pc. Thanks for any help, Nik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlbrown23 Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 My advice would be to install OSX onto a completely different drive(I installed Tiger to a USB flash drive on my laptop with the hard drive removed to avoid any trouble). Remember that you are dealing with a hacked OS. A lot of work has been done to get it to work with generic hardware, but you never know how it is going to work on any individual machine. And I bet most of the folks on this board have had to wipe at least one hard drive attempting to install osx86 - I know I've had to do it several times. Once it is up and running it has been really good, but getting it there can involve a fair amount of trial and error. In fact I had Tiger running just fine, and last month decided I wanted to update to Leo. Had to try to install both Kalyway & iAtkos a few times before I got it working, and even then there were things that needed patching. And I did this with a different drive - I kept my Tiger drive up and running while installing Leo to a different drive. After a few weeks I was convinced the Leo install was stable so I transfered all the apps & files to the Leo drive & use the old Tiger drive as my Time Machine backup. It is probably a good idea to err on the conservative side here - more than once I was stuck with a drive that would no longer boot because I had made some change it didn't like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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