Here's the scene:
12" iBook G4 800MHz is put to sleep. When the screen is opened, it prompts me for the password, and then beachballs for a good 10 minutes. I decide to force-restart with command-control-power. The iBook starts up just long enough to see the spinny wheel on the grey screen, and then *bayam* kernel panic.
I figure I messed up the system with the hard restart. I insert the OSX.3 Install CD and restart with "C".
Kernel Panic on startup.
I decide that this is quite odd, so I run the Hardware test disc.
No Kernel Panic. Extended Test shows no problems. Wonderful.
So, I restart again.
Kernel Panic on startup.
Figuring I might have bad RAM or something I uninstall the RAM that I have had for as long as ive had the ibook, as well as the Airport Extreme card.
Kernel Panic on startup.
I plug the iBook into an external firewire hard drive with a fresh copy of OSX.3 .7 installed (I keep it around in case things like this happen).
Kernel Panic on startup.
There's some data on there I need to get off, so I started up in target disk mode.
No kernel panic. sweet, maybe I can pull some of the data off. So, I plug it into another iBook.
The other iBook has a kernel panic. Thinking this seemed exceedingly odd, I retried it 3 times, each time the "good" ibook was crashing.
I boot up the trouble iBook into single-user mode (command-s) and fsck the disk. No problems found. I type "reboot"
Kernel Panic
Could anyone tell me what the hell is going on?
Cheers,
Kris
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