If you’re lucky, it should restart into Recovery Assistant. Otherwise advice on how to manage a boot loop or freeze, and how to disable 3rd party kernel extensions.
panic
How to save the panic log safely. Looking up the immediate cause of the panic, getting OS details, what to see in a memory leak, what task resulted in the panic, and 3rd party kernel extensions.
How we crashed and burned with the best of them, from recovery disks in classic Mac OS, to unexpected restarts and hidden panic logs.
How 3rd party developers used KPIs for drivers and much else in kernel extensions. These are now being replaced progressively by System Extensions. This is the state of play.
Using the correct term gets us half way to a diagnosis: kernel panics, freezes, app crashes and unresponsive apps are distinguished here.
All about time and landmarks you can look for in the log, after booting, on shutdown, when waking from sleep, and using activities to locate mouse clicks.
Recovering from one regular panic should be straightforward. But what if it’s a boot loop, in which your Mac tries to start up, panics, restarts, in an endless loop? Don’t panic: here are the solutions.
Close to the top of my shortlist of new features in the next Apple Silicon Macs is that kernel panics become a thing of the past.
Recognition, immediate action including capturing the panic log, discovering clues as to cause, further investigations to diagnose and address the cause.
Now lists the time of the start of all boots in the last 24 hours, and helps you with Unicode normalization problems.
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