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Kernel Panic starting up from CD
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Jun 25, 2004, 09:52 AM
 
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...
     
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Jun 25, 2004, 10:14 AM
 
Based on no knowledge of what it all means whatsoever, but from the mention of FireWire and PCI in the panic text, could it be a mis-seated or FUBAR'ed PCI card (e.g. graphics card, or third party firewire port card)? If it isn't even able to boot from the CD, it is extremely likely that it is a hardware issue.
     
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Jun 25, 2004, 06:25 PM
 
I just wanted to thank everyone for their help and input!

Turned out to be a bad PCI card with FireWire and USB 2.0. I pulled out the card, (and uninstalled Norton SystemWorks for extra measure) and now all it right and good in my Mac universe!
     
   
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