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I ran into a sever kernel panic and cannot startup my mac anymore (tiger system): taken out the extra RAM and putting the original onereset PRAMbooting in safe modebooting up witjh option key and using a external disk (which did allow me to install again the system), but kernel panic kicked in again. I also tried the firmware stuff… I am stuck and whatever I do it will not start… here is the panic log, any idea where the problem might be? panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A31CE): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 1, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000000, CR3: 0x0173d000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x043e0540, ECX: 0x0000005f, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x00000000, EBP: 0x25aa3d88, ESI: 0x240c0000, EDI: 0x043d6d80
EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x3bf9ffd6, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x042e0010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x25aa3b78 : 0x128d08 (0x3c9a14 0x25aa3b9c 0x131de5 0x0)
0x25aa3bb8 : 0x1a31ce (0x3cf6c8 0x1 0xe 0x3ceef8)
0x25aa3cc8 : 0x19a874 (0x25aa3ce0 0x10 0x25aa3d48 0x20)
0x25aa3d88 : 0x3bf9f3f8 (0x240c0000 0x43d6d80 0x4 0x3bfd0bbc)
0x25aa3e58 : 0x38aff0 (0x240c0000 0x43d6d80 0x1 0x3be425)
0x25aa3eb8 : 0x38c86f (0x43d6d80 0x240c0000 0x43e30c0 0x441fa80)
0x25aa3f38 : 0x38c0d7 (0x43d6d80 0x43ba040 0x0 0xffffffff)
0x25aa3f88 : 0x38d81c (0x43d6d80 0x0 0x134c09 0x38d742)
0x25aa3fc8 : 0x19a6ec (0x4430bc0 0x0 0x19d0b5 0x41a7ef0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon(1.0.9b6)@0x3bf99000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x35c22000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.1)@0x3be30000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.2.0)@0x35c38000
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.3: Wed Oct 18 21:57:10 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.15.4.obj~4/RELEASE_I386
Its the airport card. Below is from your kernel panic log. Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon(1.0.9b6)@0x3bf99000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x35c22000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.1)@0x3be30000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.2.0)@0x35c38000 AppleYukon, IOPCIFamily, and IONetworkingFamily all deal with networking from the airport card. This is the reason why “the machine also said that airportcard was not configured!” before all the kernel panics. I just worked on a new MacBook Pro which was having this same problem last week.
Unplug ALL unnecessary hardware That will eliminate the USB ports causing the KP. Startup single user mode ( hold down command-s after the boot boing ) and perform the /sbin/fsck command until it is clean /sbin/fsck <- run this until it says volume appears okay(no longer says “System modified) Will it start in target mode? Did you recently add/update any software? Are you running VMWare Beta? There was a “known issue with this”. Good Luck. N.
