Thanks.
I'm still a bit confused.
I already had a working image with my old CPU - snow leopard by hazzard but now that same image gets the vm panic on my upgraded FX-8150 processor.

If I can somehow mount the old drive that snowleopard is installed on, can I just swap the kernel with the one that RAW-X86 compiled? Is there anything else needed other than that 1 file? If I boot my image, I see Chameleon v2.0-RC3, and hit F8, I see that I can go: kernel_name (must be in /). So, I could just name it kernel-rawx86, and keep my existing kernel, i suppose... In Linux, you'd have modules in /lib/modules, initrd and System.map, so I'm not sure on all the kernel dependencies.

Unrealized, you say to use Atkos L2 and run OSInstall.mpkg, but I don't have a working OSX at all right now it's a catch-22 I'm faced with, and Atkos L2 says it does not work for AMD according to their site.

Right now, I actually don't care whether I use snow leopard or lion. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance