Last week I issued a caution about Squeeze possibly causing kernel panics. Well, it turns out that Squeeze wasn’t the root cause, but it probably just made my problem more evident. If you want to give Squeeze a shot, go for it! Don’t let my experience scare you off.
The problem was that one of my 4GB SODIMMs was bad, and that was what was causing all the kernel panics. I had previously tried testing my RAM with TechTool Pro, but it didn’t find any issues. A friend of mine suggested that I tried Memtest OS X. Low and behold, it found issues left and right! I tried removing and swapping sticks and narrowed it down to one specific stick. The RMA is in and while I’m temporarily down to 5GB of RAM (long story) instead of 8GB, I can at least run stably now.
