Hey everyone,
I am working with a DP867 MDD Power Mac 768 RAM running Panther 10.3.4 with a kernel panic situation that I cannot resolve. First, it would not boot at all, always getting the same 'Restart your computer' panic screen. After repeatedly attempting to restart I was finally able to get it to semi reliably boot up. I have tried to boot up from a variety of disks including the Panther installer disk 1, DiskWarrior 3 and TechTool4 but whenever I try to startup from any disk, I get the same panic message. Another funny thing is that there is no record of a panic.log in the library. Rather I typed the information below from the panic screen. I was finally able to connect my AlBook via Target Disk Mode to run DW and TTP which found minor issues that were repaired. Still, the same probelm exists---Boot from the hard drive is somewhat stable now but the panic when starting up from a CD or even trying Verbose, Single User or Safe Boot always results in the same panic situation. By the way, I have tried removing the RAM stcik-by-stick and the only thing plugged in is the keyboard and mouse via USB.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
Screen shows at panic:
o debugger configured - dumping debug information
MSR-00001030
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
__________Backtrace:
_________________0x000833B8 0x00083A68 0x0001ED8C 0x00090800 0x00093A6C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
_____Exception state (sv=0x1FE7F780)
___________PC=0x2836F6D8; MSR=0x00149030; DAR=0x286CD024; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x2836F6C8; R1=0x1222BC00;
XCP=0x00000008 (0x200 - Machine check)
__________Backtrace:
_________________0x2836F6C8 0x0024DE04 0x0024DBDC 0x0024E658 0x0023EE84 0x0023EE48
__________Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
_________________com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI(2.0. 9)@0x2836e000
_________________________dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x1d3d7000
_________________________dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily(1.7.0)@0x28319000
_____Exception state (sv=0x28441C80)
____________PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000;
XCP=0x00000000 (unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.0.0:
Wed Sep 24 15:48:39 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic: We are hanging here...