IMac shuts down while updating at startup.

And it won't go past the start up screen now. The apple logo is displayed, and there is a loading bar underneath. It gets about 1/4 of the way completed, and then shuts down completely. I have a lot of work I need to finish, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
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Sun Nov 9 07:13:13 2014
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff802c01e80a): Kernel trap at 0xffffff802c0059ad, type 13=general protection, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x00000001025a3000, CR3: 0x000000053130b056, CR4: 0x00000000000626e0
RAX: 0xffffff804ce9d280, RBX: 0x00000000073ba280, RCX: 0xffffff804ce9d298, RDX: 0xffffff8050d9efc0
RSP: 0xffffff8279d1bc60, RBP: 0xffffff8279d1bd40, RSI: 0x000000000edc0000, RDI: 0x0000000000000029
R8: 0x0000000000000069, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x000000000edc0000, R11: 0x000000000edd8000
R12: 0xffffff804ce9d290, R13: 0xffefff804ce9d280, R14: 0xffffff8045ae3000, R15: 0xffffff806ae08750
RFL: 0x0000000000010206, RIP: 0xffffff802c0059ad, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x00000001025a3000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x2
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8279cd5e10 : 0xffffff802bf3a811
0xffffff8279cd5e90 : 0xffffff802c01e80a
0xffffff8279cd6050 : 0xffffff802c03a443
0xffffff8279cd6070 : 0xffffff802c0059ad
0xffffff8279d1bd40 : 0xffffff802c0065e5
0xffffff8279d1bda0 : 0xffffff802bfb6b4a
0xffffff8279d1beb0 : 0xffffff802bfacd2c
0xffffff8279d1bee0 : 0xffffff802bf32df7
0xffffff8279d1bf10 : 0xffffff802c009f6b
0xffffff8279d1bfb0 : 0xffffff802c03aa18
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Google Chrome He
Mac OS version:
14A386b
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