How would i know when I get a kernal panic? Would it be anything like the blue screen of Death or no?
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Kernal Panics
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Indeed it isn't, it's possibly worse in that you get no information whatsoever about what is wrong or what to do next 
Luckily they don't show their ugly heads that often...
Luckily they don't show their ugly heads that often...
lets say i do get a KP, does it log this anywhere or no? It would be helpful to get an idea where the problem is.
jlewis2k1 said:
Check the article I linked...it mentions that it logs the info to a file called panic.log. The log file can sometimes be difficult to decipher though.
hmm what you mean it would be hard to decipher this particular log? I though apple was susposed to be simple lol.
The panic.log isn't ment to be understood by a normal user. It's for the engineers at Apple, developers, sysadmins and the like.
Besides, you'll never get a kernal panic. It's a kernel panic.
Hopefully you'll never get a kernel panic at all, so you don't have to worry about it. I have only ever seen it once and I've been using 5 different Macs for around three years
Besides, you'll never get a kernal panic. It's a kernel panic.
Hopefully you'll never get a kernel panic at all, so you don't have to worry about it. I have only ever seen it once and I've been using 5 different Macs for around three years