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Tyler McAdams · Mar 29, 2003, 05:45 AM

I can't think of what it's called when your computer crashes in OS X a kernel... something... Can anybody tell me what it is? I had the crazyest lockup the other day.. I lost everything! I installed a brand new WD 120GB HD and my computer locked up... spit a whole bunch of stuff across the screen and... my drive became useless... barely recovered this brand new 120 gb hd!

juanvaldes · Mar 29, 2003, 05:47 AM

Kernal Panic.

In 10.2 when a KP happens you get a nice dialog that says "Restart your computer now" in 5 some odd languages.

Spheric Harlot · Mar 29, 2003, 07:49 AM

Originally posted by juanvaldes:
Kernal Panic.

kernEl panic.

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Anomalous · Mar 29, 2003, 02:11 PM

Originally posted by Tyler McAdams:
I can't think of what it's called when your computer crashes in OS X a kernel... something... Can anybody tell me what it is? I had the crazyest lockup the other day.. I lost everything! I installed a brand new WD 120GB HD and my computer locked up... spit a whole bunch of stuff across the screen and... my drive became useless... barely recovered this brand new 120 gb hd!

Just to be clear, not every crash is a kernel panic. When you get a multilingual box telling you to reboot, that is a kernel panic. However, if your system just freezes, this could actually just be a GUI lockup that doesn't involve a failure in the kernel.

Tyler McAdams · Mar 29, 2003, 06:22 PM

Originally posted by Anomalous:
Just to be clear, not every crash is a kernel panic. When you get a multilingual box telling you to reboot, that is a kernel panic. However, if your system just freezes, this could actually just be a GUI lockup that doesn't involve a failure in the kernel.

No I did not get that nice screen with this kernel panic... I got the old fashioned black type across the screen that runs all over the place... the old school kernel panic...

It was strange... like I said, I rebooted and my HD would not even show up... I launched disk utility from another drive I rebooted from and the crashed hd would not even show up... even when I booted into os 9 and used the classic disk util... I thought I had lost my new 120gb hd... it was not a fun event... I was using my box as a server for a windows box that I had connect to it via samba everytime I booted the win2k machine up... everything was fine.. then apple came out with the new samba patch... I installed it and rebooted... then while I was transfering files the windows machine lost it's connection for a sec... I reconnected it... and a couple hours later I walked into the other room to check the mac... and that's when I saw the kernel panic... old school... like I said... I'm guessing it had something to do with the new patch, but I can't understand how that took out my entire hd...!

Chris Grande · Mar 29, 2003, 06:36 PM

Its possible the HD was/is bad.

Tyler McAdams · Mar 29, 2003, 10:29 PM

Originally posted by Chris Grande:
Its possible the HD was/is bad.

True.. fair enough... but I got it working again and have no problems so far... only time will tell I guess... I've been having a lot of different hardware issues accross mulitple platforms lately and I actually suspect inside hacking at this point as a possible cause... like I said only time will tell for sure.