Kernel Panic - Need help

[mirage2130]

Hi everyone. I tried searching first but didn't see anything exactly like what I have here. Last night, after installing the bash patch for the Shellshock bug, I rebooted my machine. After rebooting, it is getting a kernel panic and will not boot fully into the OS. I'm not saying that the patch was the culprit, that is just when it started happening.

A little background on my system. It is a late 2012 Mac Mini with a homemade fusion drive that I set up about 10 months ago and 16bg of RAM. It has been working flawlessly until last night. I DO have an up to date backup as well.

I tried booting to my Mavericks recovery USB and although it lists the USB stick as an option, once selected, it just reboots the system to the same Kernel panic. I also cannot boot into safe mode, or anything really. It just reboots.

I am not 100% sure how to read this screen and I do apologize for the image quality. I had to use my iPhone to capture it and it's only on the screen for maybe 3 seconds.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Weaselboy]

See if you can run the Apple Hardware Test.

 

[jbarley]

You might also try an "Internet Recovery" boot "alt+cmd+R" at startup.
If this works, then run Disk Utility from the Utilities menu and try a Disk Repair.

 

[mirage2130]

Thanks a lot for these replies. I'll give them a try when I get home, I'm at work right now.

I'm starting to wonder if there is problem with the core storage, like maybe one of the drives failed.

 

[mirage2130]

Kernel Panic - Need help

Well, I was able to run the Apple hardware test and originally it said that the memory was bad, so I swapped it out with the original memory. That made no difference as the computer will still not boot and is getting the exact same error. I was unable to run at the Internet recovery either. I do notice however that the hard drive is not spinning when I get the power, this leads me to believe further that the fusion drive is causing the problem.

 

[mirage2130]

So I have an update. It was definitely the fusion drive set up. I removed both hard drives last night and reinstalled the original hard drive, formatted it, and installed Mavericks. It is now working fine.
Thanks again for the help everyone.