kernel panic after restore hd from time machine backup

[JKomiko]

Long story made short...installed Google Music to use with my new phone...next day Mac running slow, left it running while I was out, came home to frozen screen...booted in safe mode and clicked off everything that was running in background. Tried to reboot and it kept shutting down when reaching grey screen. (I orginally had leopard and upgraded to snow leopard) got my OSX (leopard) install cd and booted to disc, disk utilities and check disc...originally would only let me verify, which failed, then unmounted and was able to get repair disc...unable to repair. I erased hd and then restored from my time machine backup, now when I boot I get kernel panic on startup. I'm running of external hd which I formatted and installed leopard essential software. So my question is, is my HD shot? Are there other step I can take? I can't afford to bring this in to someone. This is most of what my screen says when I boot:

Panic(cpu 1 caller 0x47f5ad): "Process 1 exec of /sbin/launchd failed, errno 8\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504 . 15 . 3/bsd/kern/kern_exec.c.3145

Debugger called: <painic>
Backtrace (cpu1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

and the a list of numbers....

any and all help would be appreciated to help me resolve this

 

[chscag]

It sure does sound like your hard drive needs to be replaced. The fact that verify and repair failed is a good indication that the drive may be defective. The kernel panic after an erase and install is likely happening because of the drive.

The solution: Replace the hard drive.