How does a crash look like on mac osx ?

my computer locked up the screen and pop up came in different languages saying that the computer need to be restarted, i was writing a paper on pages, then started up safari. before that i had installed onyx without a restart. did my computer do a mandatory restart or did it crash?
Black MacBook C2D   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Hi--
how come when i tried to find the panic.log it
doesn't even show up (library\logs).
Sometimes, depending on what caused the panic, and what you do afterwards, the panic log won't get saved. Sometimes the computer's state at the time of the panic is just too messed up to manage it. Also, depending on how you reboot, that can also interfere with saving the panic log. For example, if you reboot to single user mode, perhaps to run some diagnostics from the command line, that can also interfere with writing a panic log.
If you've gotten just the one panic, and haven't gotten any since, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
The main danger from repeated kernel panics is that it can cause directory damage to the hard drive, because the computer could be interrupted in updating important files in the directory.
The most common causes of kernel panics are hardware (RAM, peripheral, or hard drive problems) and certain kinds of software, most notably those that install a kernel extension (usually a driver for some specific piece of hardware). An example of this kind of software would be a mouse driver or perhaps one of the virtualization solutions like Parallels and VMWare Fusion.
charlie

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