I'm here at my parents house trying to figure out why this iMac (17" flat panel) doens't want to start up.

For some strange reason, every time it starts up, it crashes on me. Not just a little one, but a kernel panic where it tells me I have to restart the computer. Ad infinitum. After doing a lot repairs including running fsck, using the OSX install disc, removing the ram, disabling some startup files, and such, I can't get it to boot. The hard drive is fine, as I'm copying the files out right now, but for some reason, it just doesn't want to boot.

But you know what? I still love the mac. Hardware isn't all that reliable (i.e. my Sun workstations at work can't reboot if you kick the power switch). However, unlike Windows boxes, I was able to get into single user mode (command line), enable my networking, and transfer everything out via SAMBA to my other machine (Windows). If I had my work computer, I could have tried to make a boot disc, but I don't. If this had been a windows machine, I would have been pretty screwed as Windows doesn't let you do anything unless you go into GUI mode.

Still copying...have to back up tens of gigs of data via 100Mbps ethernet.

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