Will Snow Leopard 10.6.8 run on a Mac Mini?

I've got a partition on my hd that contains Snow Leopard 10.6.8, but when I try to start it up, it won't do it.  Any thoughts?

It depends on which Mac mini model it is. Append the last three characters of the computer's serial number to http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords= and see what the minimum and maximum Mac OS X versions are for it. If it's too new to boot 10.6.8, it can still run it inside a product such as VirtualBox.
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