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I decided to yank the hard drives from my Debian Linux system (which runs on an Asus A8V motherboard with an AMD64 3000+ CPU and 512MB of PC3200 RAM) and try installing OS X "Tiger" for x86 on it.
Installation was flawless again. However, when I rebooted after installation, the system threw up a kernel panic message. So, I rebooted the computer. Same thing; kernel panic. Uh oh.
Did some quick Googling and found I had installed the SSE2 patches when the AMD64 system is SSE3. D’oh! The SSE2 patch and other Maxxuss patches were added to the DVD ISO (not by Apple) so the OS can be installed on a wider variety of x86 platforms. So, I reinstalled again, this time omitting the patches.
After rebooting, I still had the "must reboot" kernel panic problem. Again, I searched Google. This time I found that two extensions in the System folder (CHUDUtils.kext and CHUDProf.kext) were causing the problem for another developer. I booted into safe mode with the -x option at the boot loader, logged in, removed the extensions, and rebooted.
Success! Tiger booted up perfectly on the AMD64 system! I chalk these "problems" up to the ISO I was installing from. It was, shall we say, "modified" from it’s original form. Hack patches would not have played a factor with a factory DVD disc. Add to that I’ve never installed OS X before — I had no instructions to read before hand — and I would say the install was amazingly smooth!
