Hi Alastair,
I had to search back through the archives to find the problems you were
experiencing with your Powerbook.
It’s always good to keep the same ‘Subject' so we know what problems you were
experiencing and what suggestions we have already given. Its hard to remember
every members problems...
Your original Subject: Re: applications quitting on powerbook: 09/11/2011 to
17/112011
We did find you had a dodgy Memory Slot which you felt you had fixed by rubbing
the contacts on
the dimm with a pencil eraser.
In my last post to you back then I mentioned:
> I expect you do have a good 'Backup Plan' in place though.
> Just in case the PowerBook is wearing out, and this may not be a permanent
> fix.
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On 08/12/2011, at 7:24 PM, alastair taylor wrote:
> Dear all
> The ol' pb has been going fine - thanks for the help - until today when it
> had a couple of kernal panics and then after booting from the cd to try a
> permission repair I could no longer find the startup disc to revert to my
> main partition. The partition is still there - it's in the sidebar and
> shows in disc utility, and apparently doesn't need repairing, but it
> doesn't appear in Startup Disc. I've reset pram and pmu to no avail. Any
> suggestions please?
>
> thanks
> alastair
So, how have your booted the powerbook to send this email to the mailing list?
You need to boot from the CD/DVD to repair the hard disk, did you do that?
If you have TechTool Pro, Disk Warrior or Drive Genius to try to repair the
disk?
Do you have a bootable backup?
How much ‘Free Space’ do you have on the Hard Drive? I don’t think you have
enough to do an “Archive & Install”.
A kernel panic is an action taken by an operating system upon detecting an
internal fatal error from which it cannot safely recover.
When a kernel panic occurs, a log of the event is usually saved (in Tiger OS X
10.4.11), in the file “panic.log” in the Mac HD > Library > Logs folder.
Double click the panic log and a new console window will open.
New panic logs are added to the end of panic.log.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt"
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
OS X 10.7.2 Lion
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
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