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surreysimon
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My iMac recently had a hard disk failure. I took it to the local Apple Store where they replaced the drive and reinstalled Mac
OS X. When I got the machine home all was working well... until I tried to restore from a Time Machine backup. The restore
process completed, apparently successfully, but when I attempted to boot the computer I got the following, which having
Googled, I believe is a kernel panic:
Mac OS version:
Not yet set
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16∶33∶36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac7,1 (Mac-F4238CC8)
Overlaid across the top is a message, "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button until it turns off, then
press the Power button again.
I've tried doing that but it just returns to the same error screen.
I've tried holding down shift whilst booting but it just returns to the same error screen.
I've tried holding down command-option-p-r and waiting for the three chimes, but still the same error.
I've held down D whilst booting and run the Apple Hardware Test but not errors are reported.
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I've booted from the installation CD and run disk utility, but no errors are reported.
! I've tried booting into single user mode to run fsck but I get the same error message on an entirely black screen and it won't
Q: Kernel
allow failure after Time Machine restore
me to type.
I've tried holding down command-option-o-f but just get to the same error screen above.
I'm really at a loss as to what to do now, but I am panicking somewhat as I need the computer working ASAP and am
paranoid I may have lost my entire music and photo collections.
Cheers.
In case anyone else is having this problem this is what worked for me:
Start computer and insert Installation Disk provided when the computer was purchased;
Restart computer and boot to disk by holding down 'C' whilst booting;
Run Disk Utility from top meu and erase hard drive;
Restart computer - booted to CD straight away for me;
Reinstall Mac OSX;
During reinstallation select to restore from Time Machine backup.
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In case anyone else is having this problem this is what worked for me:
Start computer and insert Installation Disk provided when the computer was purchased;
Restart computer and boot to disk by holding down 'C' whilst booting;
Run Disk Utility from top meu and erase hard drive;
Restart computer - booted to CD straight away for me;
Reinstall Mac OSX;
During reinstallation select to restore from Time Machine backup.
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If I use restore function (TM) as part of installation sequence I get error: ...other MAC is running newer version of MAC OS X.
Doing this restored my Mac exactly as it was, i.e. w/ Snow Leopard and all my apps and data intact. Here's an explaination of what I
think happened.
My Mac originally came with SL 10.6.5 DVD. I've been keeping up w/ software updates, which brought my Mac to SL 10.6.8. I used my
original DVD to restore TM backup which caused kernel panic. My guess is the TM included with SL 10.6.5 is not able to properly
restore TM backups made with SL 10.6.8. If I had gotten SL 10.6.8 DVD, I suspect TM restore would have worked fine. Instead, I used
Lion DVD to restore TM backup which worked just as well.
surreysimon's solution didn't work because of the same issue. I followed the steps using my original 10.6.5 DVD, but TM restore
function as part of installation sequence would error saying the backup is newer version of OS X; same error Peter DK saw. Using
migration utility after installing and updating SL doesn't work. It only restores data and not the apps.
In case you are wondering, I upgraded my other Mac to Lion but keeping this one on SL. I'm seeing too many nagging issues with
Lion which I hope Apple will fix before I upgrade this one.
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- I folowed the instructions to create a bootable Lion USB drive instead of a DVD. (The only other Mac I had available was an older Mac
Mini which cannot write DVDs.)
- To choose the boot drive in my case requires holding down the Option key rather than 'C'.
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P.S. Watching House while working on your computer makes you want to write all the symptoms on a white board to solve the issues.
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