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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84459-tried-to-install-leopard-and-disaster-struck/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84459-tried-to-install-leopard-and-disaster-struck/#findComment-599564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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