I have a 2008 iMac that constantly kernel panics on boot. It gets to the grey Apple logo screen with spinning wheel, then panics after a minute or so. When this first happened, I finally managed to boot to the install CD after trying many, many times and re-installed and all was fine, until I restored my iMac from my Time Machine. There must be corrupted software that was causing the kernel panic. Now though, I cannot boot to CD or safe mode as it panics again. I can boot into single user mode, however, verbose mode and also the Apple hardware test on the install CD.
I have tried resetting PRAM, fsck in single user mode shows no errors and the Apple hardware test shows no errors, even in extended test mode. Also tried removing/swapping RAM and I've even removed the HDD and completely wiped it from another computer. The HDD is healthy and is fairly new as it was replaced under warranty a few months ago.
In verbose mode, it hangs at:
Warning - com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport declares no kernel dependencies; using com.apple.kernel.6.0
And doesn't progress any furthur. I can't think of anything else to try, any ideas what might be causing this?
I have tried resetting PRAM, fsck in single user mode shows no errors and the Apple hardware test shows no errors, even in extended test mode. Also tried removing/swapping RAM and I've even removed the HDD and completely wiped it from another computer. The HDD is healthy and is fairly new as it was replaced under warranty a few months ago.
In verbose mode, it hangs at:
Warning - com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport declares no kernel dependencies; using com.apple.kernel.6.0
And doesn't progress any furthur. I can't think of anything else to try, any ideas what might be causing this?
