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I have tried this on 3 computers. 1 was running Vista and the other 2 were running XP. When I try to boot from the CD on XP it starts loading then then my computer reboots and then if I try it again it reboots and it keeps rebooting. On vista when I try to boot from the CD while it is loading I get an error saying "ERROR: FireWire unable to determine security-mode" and it doesn't do anything.

Thanks

What CD are you trying to load? Are you using an external Firewire CD drive to boot from?

no i am using a normal DVD drive and I am loading a cd with a patched version of leopard

Erm, patched version of Leopard? As in "special" torrent download of Leopard? If this is the case, we can't help you out with hacked/patched OS's.

I don't really know much about osx86, so it'd all be googling.

http://lifehacker.com/348653/install-os ... -required/

It's illegal if you don't have a valid Leopard license, of course, but that's kind of out of scope for the actual install, I guess.

thank you

Also, your hardware has to be compatible .. and it is a short list of hardware that Apple works with.

Try the Insanely Mac forums as well .. they've got lots of info posted about running OSX on non-apple hardware.

What you need to understand is that your machine is kernel panicking !!

Press F8 before Apple logo screen appears, you will see a boot prompt. type -v and press enter. THis is verbose mode. -x is safe mode, try that next...if you can't make sense of what the kernel panic is...which I assume you can't (no offense meant it's fairly cryptic to someone that doesn't know a thing about UNIX).

Other boot options include...:

-Platform="X86PC"
-Platform="ACPI"
-Platform="cpu 1" IIRC shh look it up in case .

It is possible that the OP patched his own disc and that it was a purchased disc. We will just assume this is the case

The whole thing is a pretty gray area but is generally "accepted" as okay as long as you own the/an OS license.