Hi Ronni Sorry about the new thread - can't get into Mail and forgot the name of the old one. I have 70gig free and 50 used on the partition in question.would that do? The bloke in pro byte in bunbury also suggested an archive and install, so if you think so too that's the clincher. I have a panic log but it might as well be in Urdu! Don't have tech tool or similar unfortunately. PB currently booted from another partition on the hd. Thanks so much for help Best Alastair
----- Reply message ----- From: "Ronda Brown" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2011 12:48 pm Subject: dodgy powerbook strikes again To: <[email protected]> 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. ================================ 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, -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
