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Recovery for a 17" iMac Igloo
I ran software update and downloaded Security Update 2007-005 and installed it today and it hosed my 17" iMac Igloo running OS 10.4.9. I get a kernal panic when trying to boot.
I do nightly backups with SuperDuper, using an external firewire drive. I can boot from that backup, which last ran at 1:30 this morning. So I need to restore the iMac to pre-Security Update status, using the available backup. How, exactly, do I go about that? Feel free to speak to me like a newbie. I've been on Apple machines since the ][+ but never needed to do this before. Thanks. |
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Simply follow the steps in "Recovering from a disaster" in the User's guide -- basically, Smart Update from the backup back to the internal. Very Easy! :-)
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Hi Dave,
I did a Smart Update from the backup to the internal drive. The result was no different than before I tried that -- attempting to boot from the internal drive yields a kernal panic while the backup remains a viable boot disc. Should I try an erase and copy? Thanks, Michael |
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Sure -- you can try: it's possible that an imortant file's internal content is damaged. Have you looked at the panic.log to see what's having trouble?
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Hi Dave,
I just did an erase and copy of all files from the backup. No luck. Still get a kernel panic when I try to boot. How would I go about looking at the panic.log without being able to boot from that machine? And now that I've done a complete erase and copy would that still even be possible? I still can boot from the backup but only from the backup. Here is some of the text that appears onscreen: panic (cpu0 call 0x002e068) Unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerMac6,1" then there are some other things before we get to: Kernel version: Darwin kernel 8.6.0: Tue Mar 7 16:58:48 pst 2006; root: xnu-792.6.70.obj~1/release_ppc panic: we are hanging here . . . Other than the erase and copy, is there any other way to use the existing backup to rescue this machine? Thanks, Michael |
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That implies that the copy of the OS that you're starting from doesn't support the Mac you're running.
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