Cannot boot after Time Machine System Restore

[floydtheduck]

I am upgrading my hard drive in my MacBook Pro and before removing the old hard drive I backed my time machine up to a NAS (Network Hard Drive). I put in the new drive and booted from the Snow Leopard DVD. I formatted it for HFS+ and then selected the option to Restore System from Full Backup. I selected my network hard drive and all seemed to go well. After clicking restart, the machine restarted, gave me the chime, and then displayed the infamous multi-language kernel panic message with some text in the background.
Here's a paraphrase of the background text:
"panic (cpu 0 caller) version mis-match between Kernel and CPU PM @/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.9.17/osfmk/i386/pmCPU.c:707
Backtrace CPU 0,... 4 potential args on stack
........
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: unknown

Mac OS Version:
Not yet set

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel version 10.5.0
System Model Name: MacBookPro5,5"



Can anyone point me in the right direction?


Thanks

 

[maflynn]

Try install 10.6 on your new drive without doing a Time Machine restore.

You can then decide whether to try a full Time Machine Restore or just restore the folders/apps once it boots up into 10.6

 

[floydtheduck]

You can then decide whether to try a full Time Machine Restore or just restore the folders/apps once it boots up into 10.6

How do I restore just folders/apps once it boots into 10.6? The only process I know is a full system restore (OS X + all data)

 

[cerote]

It's called migration tool in the utilities in the application folder.

 

[floydtheduck]

I just reinstalled 10.6 and I now have all my files and settings as before without having to re-import all my data. I guess the install just repaired whatever was broken?