I was using my macbook pro and suddenly it started crashing... I tried to restart it but it would take too much time, so i pushed the power button and powered it off. When i started my mac i got a kernel panic. *** is going on ? I restarted it 7 times, tried to enter safe mode holding the shift key but nothing
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
My computer has a kernel panic problem. And I'd like to fix it by booting as safe boot. I hold the shift key after the tone, and release it when the apple and loading gear appear. But, the bar that indicates that safe mode is loading never appears. It'll just boot on regular boot.
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- Boot via bootable Lion USB Key (Hold option, and choose the USB drive - not the same USB key works on my other macbook pro)
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Safe Mode = DMG's mount
Normal Mode = DMG's won't mount.Â
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.4), 9400M/9600MGT
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I have a 15" mbp with 10.6 Intel core duo, 4gb ram with a boot camp and ubuntu partition through parallels. The other day I was installing xcode from apple's website, which failed 3 times after downloading saying the package couldn't be expanded. I left my computer for a while and came back where i then had to log in again. it rejected my password numerous time (i'm positive it was correct). when i restarted my computer i got a kernal panic screen when the apple logo came up. it told me to restart the computer which i did. didn't work. i restarted with the osx cd to use the disk utility. when it checked the drive it found a bunch of errors, which i then tried to correct. it went for a couple minutes then told me they couldn't be fixed and i should try to back up my data and reinstall osx. i don't know how to back up my hard drive when i can't log into my account. i've tried to boot in target disk mode and copy some files that way, but the only disk the other computer sees is my windows partition- no mac partition.
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