Mountain Lion install crash on Mac Pro

Hi,
Just started the install on my Early 2008 Mac Pro and it's completely crashed the system. The app downloaded fine and ran OK in 10.7 doing the setup and then tried to reboot. As soon as it rebooted I get a Kernel Panic and the 'Please Power Off your System'.
I've managed to get into Recovery Mode and am going to restore from Time Machine and try again but has anyone else had this?
There were no warnings or errors before the kernel panic at all.......
Thanks,

This worked for me....
Restart
During restart, hold Ctrl + Command + P + R to reset the PRAM
After this, the computer will flash and reboot again and should boot into the Mountain Lion Installer.
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Since about a week I am trying to install mountain lion on my macbook pro (late 2008).
I'v tried to perform normal instal from snow leopard I also tried to install it from USB drive.
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so does the Apple want to say we should buy or upgrade our purchased costly apple products every 5 years ??!!

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