Dear Aunt TUAW,
My Mac has been experiencing kernel panics. I managed to grab an error log. Now what? I'm not sure how to use this to figure out what's going wrong Please help!
Your loving nephew,
Esteban
Dear Esteban,
The preponderance of the time, kernel panics are hardware related and not software. Looking at the error log can help you figure out what issue may be causing it.
Look for the last loaded and last unloaded kernel extensions as well as the items named in the extension backtrace. They can provide good indication of what's going wrong.
For example, you mi