On May 13, 2005, at 3:22 PM, B.Eric Bradley tossed: > Let me throw this one out there: my PowerBook was a mass of kernel > panics and application failures until the bad third-party memory with > which my machine had been "upgraded" at purchase was replaced with > more stable RAM.
I guess that's one hardware situation that meets my understanding of a kernel panic because the kernel could try to write to memory that isn't there, if the memory is bad. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
