The only thing I can really add here is to make sure you know your partition scheme... including what (if different than your normal "/" partition) partition your /boot directory with your kernel is ...

In the Classic Mac OS, when an application crashed it would usually take down the whole system, requiring a hard reset. Apple largely tackled this in OS X by basing the system off of a UNIX kernel, ...

Had a user say that he was working on a FCP project when "the Matrix" scrolled down his screen and locked up the Mac. I've seen kernel panic errors before but this is new to me. A hard reboot allowed ...

A handful of MacFixIt readers have recently reported an issue where USB-based KVM (Keyboard, Video and Mouse) switchers cause kernel panics when a transfer is ...