When the disc has fully booted, start Disk Utility from the Installer menu. Click the name
of your Mac OS X volume in the disc pane, click the First Aid tab, and then click the Repair Disk
button. Disk Utility first verifies your drive to see if there are any problems with the file system,
and then repairs any damage that it may find.
After running Disk Utility, restart the Mac normally to see if the issue is resolved.
Overcome Kernel Panic
The kernel is not just a place to get good chicken; it??™s also the name of the core part of your Mac
OS X operating system. If the kernel??™s not happy, nobody??™s happy. Should you be the unlucky
recipient of a message that says, ???You need to restart your computer,??? your Mac is experiencing a
kernel panic. Most likely your Mac has had some kind of corruption to its operating system files;
chances of a kernel panic being caused by hardware are pretty slim.
If you are certain that you moved or renamed your system folders before experiencing the
panic, you have to reinstall Mac OS X. Take this as a huge, glaring hint: don??™t move or rename
your Mac OS X system folder!
If you have no idea what may have happened to the system, try these things next:
?– Restart The venerable restart is of course your first step to take.
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