Kernel Panic after Reformat?

Question

I certainly thought this blinking light issue was cure by
reformatting/reinstalling Tiger. But, today while browsing I suddenly got a grey/blacked out screen with a message in five languages; 'You must shut down and reboot the computer using the power button'. I did, and upon restart the sleep light immediately began blinking again. I haven't had time yet to check the HD for bad messages I was receiving before the reformat, but will soon. Was this a kernel panic? I had just rebuilt all docs/iTunes etc...Hate to go through that again, but wondering if another try on it may work? Thanks

Answer 1

Hello cornelius - Well, I may be defeated here on this. I did the reformat/reinstall the old fashioned way; I erased the HDD from Disk Utility, then ran the Tiger disk for the reinstall, then firewired back iTunes/docs etc from my eMac G4. Those error readings I reported this morning were from booting from the install disk, then running disk utility. Before responding to your last post here, I ran disk utility siply from the app, with no disk, and got the following message; 'incorrect number of Extended Attributes', and 'HDD needs repair'. I do hate to have to do this all over, but it's hard to imagine DW or TTP doing any more after a complete erase sequence.
If it helps, I'll paste here your response to me from 8/5/08 that I used to format the new harddrive after I installed it. Hoping that these would be the best method for the reformat/reinstall I recently performed. Thanks much.
viejo62:
As Joe explained, a new HDD needs to be formatted before you install. Here are step by step directions:
Formatting, Partitioning Erasing a Hard Disk Drive
Boot from the install CD holding down the "C" key.
Select language
• Go to the Utilities menu (Tiger) Installer menu (Panther & earlier) and launch Disk Utility.
• Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
• Select Partition tab in main panel. (You are about to create a single partition volume.)
• Click on Options button
• Select Apple Partition Map (PPC Macs) or GUID Partition Table (Intel Macs)
• Click OK
• Select number of partition in pull-down menu above Volume diagram.
(Note 1: One partition is normally preferable for an internal HDD.)
• Type in name in Name field (usually Macintosh HD)
• Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
• Click Partition button at bottom of panel.
• Select Erase tab
• Select the sub-volume (indented) under Manufacturer ID (usually Macintosh HD).
• Check to be sure your Volume Name and Volume Format are correct.
• Click Erase button
• Quit Disk Utility.
Your HDD is now ready for installation. If you have your entire HDD cloned to an external firewire HDD, you can now boot from the external and clone back. Or, if you prefer to install fresh and then restore, here are step by step directions for installation:
Installation Process
While booted from the install disk
• Open Installer and begin installation.
• Select installation option
• Choose to Customize and deselect Foreign Language Translations and Additional Printer drivers.
Optional: Check box to install X11 (Tiger) BSD Subsystems (Panther & earlier).
• Proceed with installation.
• After installation computer will restart for setup.
• After setup, reboot computer.
• Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
• Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
• Select First Aid in main panel.
• Click Repair Disk Permissions.
• Connect to Internet.
• Download and install Mac OS X 10.4.11 Combo update (PPC) (Tiger) or
10.3.9 Combo Update (Panther)
Computer will restart.
• Repair Disk Permissions as previously.
• Go to Apple Menu > Software Update.
• Install all updates.
Computer may restart after updates.
• Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
• Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
• Select First Aid in main panel.
• Click Repair Disk Permissions.
cornelius
PismoG4 550, 120GB 5400 Seagate internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS X (10.4.11) Mac OS X (10.4.11) Beige G3 OS 8.6
viejo62
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