[Zimwy]

Hi,
Here's a good one for y'all:
First off, I must preface this with the fact that I was running the command line version of setiathome for about a week straight right before this happened. Okay. Now:
I decided to burn a CD under os 10.2.4. Went out to eat, came back and had one of the old school kernel panics (the ones where it prints the text out directly over the screen). I'd thought they'd gotten rid of those, and replaced them with that fancy picture. Maybe my kernel panic was so intense it couldn't even do that. So, I restarted.

Grey screen, no apple logo. Restarted again. again. again. again. same deal. Zapped PRAM, did all the stuff, nothing. Eventually, I restarted and went to do some work. I came back and had the missing system Questionmark thing. So, I whipped out the OS X CD, booted from the Cd and got the gear after the Apple Logo for 25 minutes. At this point, I got impatient, and restarted again. This time, the system booted fine, and I realized, without the CD. Everything's vaguely back to normal, now, except this, which has happened before:



This scares me. Any ideas?

No, I don't have thousands of keyboard control panels laying around my system either.

gabe

[Drizzt]

Clear your caches in /Library/Caches and ~/Library/Caches..

should do the trick..

[Zimwy]

that did the trick. Any ideas about the kernel panic? Why the text, and not the fancy screen?

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by Zimwy:
that did the trick. Any ideas about the kernel panic? Why the text, and not the fancy screen?

I'd need the text of the panic for that

[Zimwy]

There is no good way of getting the kernel panic text without writing it all out on a sheet of paper, right?

gabe

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by Zimwy:
There is no good way of getting the kernel panic text without writing it all out on a sheet of paper, right?

gabe

If you are lucky, you'll have it in Apple System Profiler.. somewhere in there you'll find panic.log or something like that..

Good luck!