Q: Can't Restore from Time Machine Back Ups- -kernel panic
I have a MacBook (intel, 2009) that was running 10.6.8. I have 2 gigs of ram and abt 40% of hard disk space available. I started having a lot of interruptions w/spinning beachball. It first started happening mostly while online and I thought it was bc I can no longer update safari, firefox bc I already have the latest version that 10.6.8 will allow. But lately, the interruptions started happening while I was working on files (Indesign, photoshop,etc...) I tried trashing various prefs, caches, etc, as recommended- -no joy. I tested the hardware, ran disk utility, and repaired permissions many times, everything checks out ok there. I felt it was time to try and restore system from a previous version from my Time machine backups, back to when I was experiencing no problems. When I did that I started up from my DVD and restored the system from a back up. Problem is - - I have not been able to reboot w/the back up. I get the ker
nel panic screen which says the system isnt set. I tried several different back ups that I have made over the past 2 years, but no joy. If I reinstall from scratch from the dvd it restores fine. Problem is I have a ton of applications and emails that I have backed up that I can not use w/the original OS on the disk- -10.5. My question is- -since nothing seems to be wrong w/the computer itself, am I wrong to think these back ups can restore the system? Or is time machine essentially for backing up files? Thats not what I understood it to be, but it seems like thats what happening- -it doesnt recognize a system folder. The other question is, if I shell out to go back to 10.6 will I be able to restore my applications from the back ups? Thank you in advance for any direction on this.
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Kernel panic
Posted on Feb 28, 2016 7:53 AM