10.2.6 = kernal panic |
May, 08, 2003 6:56 PM |
tomr |
I installed 10.2.6(I had 10.2.5 installed) from the Software Update panel along with the new version of Quicktime. When I rebooted, I got a kernal panic. I've tried it several times and I get the same error. I've never received a kernal panic before and have been using OS X ever since 10.1.5 came out. I have a Power Tower Pro with a Sonnet G4 450 card, Sonnet Tempo ATA 100 card with a Western Digital 120 GB drive. I was able to get it to boot into OS 9.1 which is on a separate partition. When I boot into 9.1 it fails to mount the partition with 10.2.6 on it. This is the first time that I've had a problem with this partition. I ran Disk First Aid(Verify) on it which told me: Problem: Custom icon missing:,579636,1004 Problem: Mount check found serious errors. ... The volume "OSX" needs to be repaired. My plan was to reinstall the boot files and try OS X again but since I need to be able to mount this drive to do so, I'm tempted to go ahead and have it repair it hoping for the best. Unfortunately, I don't have an adequate backup of this partition so I'm a little hesitant. Any suggestions. Is this failure to mount causing my kernal panic? As a final note, I do have a 2 and 4 GB SCSI drives that I could use to reinstall OS X on. My thought here is that maybe this is unrelated to the kernal panic and that OS X could mount this drive so that I can back up important files before I try to repair it. Any thoughts would be appreciated. |
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RE: 10.2.6 = kernal panic |
May, 11, 2003 2:45 PM |
frankbendrick |
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I failed to mention... I had a similar problem. I had dilligently installed OS X 10.2.5 and imported my mail, contacts, photos, etc. Then I clobbered the OS X partition; it would not mount. So I installed a basic OS X on another drive, booted up the machine from that drive, and used the Disk Utility to examine and repair my main OS X disk. It woked like a champ and my main OS X disk came back up and I have experienced no problems since. BTW, I have also updated to 10.2.6. |
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RE: 10.2.6 = kernal panic |
May, 11, 2003 2:39 PM |
frankbendrick |
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The Disk Utility in OS X will only repair another dis/partition also containing OS X. Attempting to repair an OS X disk/partition with any repair utility (Norton Utilities, Tech Tools, Disk Warrior, etc.) running under OS 9.x is risky. You may do more damage than already exists. Since you have several spare drive that can hold a basic install on OS X, I suggest you load OS X on one of those drives. Then use tthe OS X Disk Utitlity to examine and repair your main OS X disk. If the OS X Disk Utility cannot repair the other OS X disk, then get and try a repair utitlity that is specifically identified as OS X compatible. |
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RE: 10.2.6 = kernal panic |
May, 09, 2003 11:10 PM |
kbata |
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10.2.6 works fine on my system. Maybe it's a problem specific to the Power Tower. Has anyone on this site had success with this set up? |
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RE: 10.2.6 = kernal panic |
May, 09, 2003 6:43 PM |
voxxdigital |
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Well, if you have already safely made a backup of all your important data, and you tried everything possible to reboot your OSX and nothing worked, I'd suggest you to do a low-level format to your drive to ensure that you will not have any more partition problems. Then install OS X 10.2.5 (this one was working. right?) and before installing anything else, installing the 10.2.6 update. If it works fine, reboot OK, then your problems are solved. If you get Kernel Panic again it's likely to have some incompatibility with 10.2.6 and XPF. Then low-level format again and stick with 10.2.5 until XPF become compatible with 10.2.6. I believe this is the most logical method to ensure that you haven't any hidden garbage inside your HD and that OSX 10.2.6 isn't conflicting with any third-party software you may have installed on your system. |
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RE: 10.2.6 = kernal panic, the sequel |
May, 09, 2003 5:13 PM |
tomr |
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I've made some progress. Knowing that Data Rescue was available if needed, I decided to let Disk First Aid repair it. It did and the partition mounted in OS9 after a reboot. I then copied all the important data off the drive and tried to boot into OSX again, reinstalling the BootX and Extensions. I still get a kernal panic as soon as it tries to start the kernal. My question now is this: Is there anything worth trying before I reinstall 10.2 from CD over the existing partition? |
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RE: 10.2.6 = kernal panic |
May, 09, 2003 10:02 AM |
marcush |
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You need Disk Warrior! It will bring back a partion with errors like what you are describing and worse. Norton Utilities may also work but I would be less confident of success. You could also hope disk first aid can handle the problem. However, if disk first aid attempts and fails to repair the partition then you are no worse off than you are now. In either case you need to perform maintenance on the partition. Simply reinstalling bootx and the kernel extensions is probably not going to help. |
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RE: 10.2.6 = kernal panic |
May, 09, 2003 6:32 AM |
voxxdigital |
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P.S. - Data Rescue worked for me where Disk Warrior, DART and Norton miserably failed. (Norton even bomb-crashed). There are OSX, Classic and even Legacy (68k) versions available. You can dowload the full executable and recover one file for free. After that you must buy the software, in which Prosoft will give you a serial number to make it fully operational. Good luck. |
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RE: 10.2.6 = kernal panic |
May, 09, 2003 6:27 AM |
voxxdigital |
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Hey, if by any chance you cannot repair your drive (I hope you can), use Data Rescue http://www.prosofteng.com - this is the best data recovery tool I ever seen. I'm dealing with a very ugly HD crash right now and Data Rescue is saving my skin. DR is not about drive repair, but it reads the data from the damaged volume, leaving it untouched, and writes the restored data to a safe volume. |
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RE: 10.2.6 = kernal panic |
May, 09, 2003 12:47 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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Diskwarrior 2,1 is what you need... it will repair the OSX disk I wager. Although why this would occur after 10.2.6 is a ? 10.2.6 is ok on my PTP G3/480. FYI Marty |
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RE: 10.2.6 = kernal panic |
May, 09, 2003 12:18 AM |
powderhaus |
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If you Have Tech Tool Pro or norton or something along those lines, Use that to try and get your drive back as it does not have to mount for them to repair it. After that it should be fine and boot back into OSX. My computer runs a disk check every boot, and finds something wrong every time after a hard reboot and i am assuming it repairs it too because it takes an age to get through it and the same errors don't come up each time. after i installed 10.2.6 and rebooted it got to the blue screen and a window poped up and said that i needed to reboot by holding down the power button for 5sec. after that it has run fine. |
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