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 ...

Most crashes on a Mac affect just one application. But you may encounter a type of system-wide crash that brings down your entire Mac: a kernel panic. When this occurs, there’s no warning and no way ...

Spotify team member Johan Lindstrom has confirmed that Apple is working on a fix for a bug that occasionally triggers a kernel panic on OS X when running the streaming music service's official Mac ...

Paul Marshall had a kernel panic almost the first time in booted his new flat panel iMac in OS X. He contacted Apple about it. They told him that this has been reported by a few users so far and they ...