Hi all,
Hopefully the following info will help some of you solve the random kernel panics and system freezes you've been experiencing after installing Jaguar. I had the same problem, which was getting on my nerves truth be told, but I'm pretty sure I've solved them. This may not help those who are experiencing problems with two video cards. I have a flat-panel iMac 800 so I only have one.
When I initially installed Jaguar I did so as an "upgrade" over my existing 10.1.5 installation. After a few days of total stability I started getting various kernel panics and/or system freezes requiring a hard reboot. I've noted that quite a few users have experienced the same. Not only as outlined on these forums but scattered across various forums such as on MacNN, MacFixIt, MacOSX etc., were reports of users experiencing this most unwelcome problems.
What I did is, I reinstalled Jaguar as an Archive installation. You know, the one which saves your User folder and Network settings and then creates a folder named Previous System. Once I did this archive installation, the kernel panics and system freezes have disappeared, thank the Lord.
So, I guess the moral of the story, for me anyway, is: don't do an "upgrade" installation. I think, maybe, that doing an "upgrade" installation keeps some old system files around from OS 10.1.x which don't play nice with Jaguar. Just my thought about it anyway.
Hopefully this suggestion will save someone a lot of grief
and hostility toward Jaguar! (The system also seems a lot faster now too, but that might be my wishful thinking!)
regards,
Richard
Hopefully the following info will help some of you solve the random kernel panics and system freezes you've been experiencing after installing Jaguar. I had the same problem, which was getting on my nerves truth be told, but I'm pretty sure I've solved them. This may not help those who are experiencing problems with two video cards. I have a flat-panel iMac 800 so I only have one.
When I initially installed Jaguar I did so as an "upgrade" over my existing 10.1.5 installation. After a few days of total stability I started getting various kernel panics and/or system freezes requiring a hard reboot. I've noted that quite a few users have experienced the same. Not only as outlined on these forums but scattered across various forums such as on MacNN, MacFixIt, MacOSX etc., were reports of users experiencing this most unwelcome problems.
What I did is, I reinstalled Jaguar as an Archive installation. You know, the one which saves your User folder and Network settings and then creates a folder named Previous System. Once I did this archive installation, the kernel panics and system freezes have disappeared, thank the Lord.
So, I guess the moral of the story, for me anyway, is: don't do an "upgrade" installation. I think, maybe, that doing an "upgrade" installation keeps some old system files around from OS 10.1.x which don't play nice with Jaguar. Just my thought about it anyway.
Hopefully this suggestion will save someone a lot of grief
and hostility toward Jaguar! (The system also seems a lot faster now too, but that might be my wishful thinking!)
regards,
Richard