iMac won't boot up

[djstarrock]

I've recently downgraded from snow leopard down to leopard using from a time machine backup. Now when ever I boot up it with a kernel panic, I've tried multiple restarts and it still shows the same thing.

Can anyone help?

 

[stridemat]

How far do you get in the boot process? Does it even boot before the Kernel Panic occurs?

 

[Intell]

Did you try starting up while holding down the shift key or Command-V?

 

[djstarrock]

I hear the chime then see the apple logo for about 5 seconds then the kernel panic comes up.

 

[djstarrock]

Did you try starting up while holding down the shift key or Command-V?

Press Cmd-V now there a console thing up.

 

[stridemat]

I think that what you are doing is not officially supported by Apple, especially when restoring from a Time Machine back up. Do you still have the TM backup on an external hard drive? If so would it be worth reinstalling Leopard on a freshly formatted hard drive in you iMac and then only copying over key files that you need. I know this defeats the point of a full backup, but this should get rid of the majority of problems.

 

[Intell]

Press Cmd-V now there a console thing up.

What do the last few lines of text say? Also are you restoring to Leopard from a Snow Leopard Time Machine Backup? If you are I don't think that will work.

 

[djstarrock]

What do the last few lines of text say? Also are you restoring to Leopard from a Snow Leopard Time Machine Backup? If you are I don't think that will work.

Mac OS version:
Not yet set

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.0: Fri Feb 11:58:09 PST 2010; root;xnu-1504.3.12~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac8,1 (Mac-F226BEC8)

Yes, I'm downgrading from SL to Leopard.

 

[Intell]

Mac OS version:
Not yet set

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.0: Fri Feb 11:58:09 PST 2010; root;xnu-1504.3.12~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac8,1 (Mac-F226BEC8)

Yes, I'm downgrading from SL to Leopard.

I've never heard of that message before. Are you downgrading using a Time Machine Backup that was made using Snow Leopard?

 

[djstarrock]

I've never heard of that message before. Are you downgrading using a Time Machine Backup that was made using Snow Leopard?

Yes.

 

[djstarrock]

I'm just going to install from a fresh copy of leopard no restoring from back up.

 

[Intell]

Well then Leopard won't like that. If you can you need to restore from a Time Machine backup that you had before you installed SL. If you don't have one that old then you have to start from scratch. I think there are some programmes that can get individual files from Time Machine backups.