Mac os x 10.4.6 install booting help

Hi everyone, I recently got Mac from a retail store, i wanted to switch from windows cuz it overall looked and felt way better. But... i got to installing mac i get throught the whole thing, it start the timer to restart your computer, and then i just idles there with the little loading symbol. And it wont restart? Someone told me i need grub bootloader but i load the drive and it runs lines of code down then go to a specs type page and idles. Can anyone help? thxs a lot
Custom PC Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Scopey,
what do you mean with "custom built computer"? Be aware that Apple only supports Macintosh computers and restricts the use of MacOS X to this hardware. If you applied a system hack to run MacOS X on different hardware than a Mac you are way out of the license agreement and might consider asking these questions in a different place than Apple's homepage.

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