Macbook pro retina boot failure

Just got my new Macbook Pro Retina. Migrated my applications and data from my Macbook Air. Everything worked great. Apple Update advised that new updates were available. I accepted and ran the updates. Now it gets a kernal panic at boot. Can boot into Safe Mode however. I used Command R to reinstall OSX but that did not correct my problem. Same kernal panic persists. Am reinstalling OSX one more time. Understand the error is due to a Thunderbolt Driver update but don't understand why the reinstallation of OSX did not fix my problem. Pretty depressing to purchase a brand new computer only to have it fail within moments of getting it due to software. Couldn't reach Apple Care this evening.

You have my sympathies. I bought a MacBook Pro Retina. I tried to migrate my data 10 times in at least four different ways with no luck whatsoever.
Apple tech support wanted to help but couldn't. Try this. Try that. Nothing worked.
I blame Apple. Why would you put a new port, Thunderbolt, into a new computer without also putting adapter cables into production. It's a $20 part. It not a matter of easier to use it's a matter of use at all.
The Thunderbolt to ethernet was just not up to the task of a 250gb data transfer.
I couldn't use Time Machine because some other bright Apple engineer never thought that someone would use Time Machine to migrate their data. I got an error message telling me it was not possible to go from my 2 year old MacBook Pro to the new one. So they knew there was a problem but they didn't bother to fix it.
After wasting 12 hours, I had to rebuild my system by hand. Something I haven't had to do for the last 6 years. I'm still trying to get my house of cards back to where it was.

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