[HELP] YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX!
Michael Loose
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat Jun 28 16:36:01 2003
odd ...
Mark, did i get this right, you are able to boot from CD but you can't
see any partitions in this state - or are they just ignored by the
diskutility?
If you can see the devices, make a writable image of you OS9 - Install
CD, copy an additional (working) Systemfolder (get on from a friend or
so, don't copy it from an Install-Media) onto it, boot up from this CD
and move your old folder aside, replace it with the additional one (
you may add the missing extensions manually later) and restart.
If you are lucky and find a friend with an iPod, install a system on
it, boot from the Pod and proceed as above.
When booting from your installed OS9 - System, did you already try
force-quit (like in OSX) to shutdown the finder? Sometimes this helps.
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 01:13, Mark Srebnik wrote:
> Hi Thierry,
>
> Apologies for the other email I just sent accidentally before writing the response shown below....
>
> Thanks once again for your help...although that's not the answer I wanted to hear!!... ;-) Starting to understand the quote in your signature!!
>
> While I can see both my OS9 and OSX drive partitions on the desktop in OS9, I can't do anything in OS9 as my trackball button and keyboard button clicks don't work now. Don't know why that is.
>
> So if I can find a way to work in OS9, I could do what you say and copy my important files over from the OSX partition to the OS9 partition....
>
> Any suggestions anyone??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
> Really Frustrated Mac User
>
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch>
> Sent: 06/28/03 03:39 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: [HELP] YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX!
>
> >
> > Hi Mark!
>
> On Saturday 28 June 2003 18:50, Mark Srebnik wrote:
>
> > What is strange is that when I startup holding down the option key I do
> see
> > my two partitions (described above), one with an OSX icon and the other
> > with an OS9 icon on it.
>
> But you can't start OS X? Sounds to me as an HFS problem. I had this
> recently
> on a firewire drive formated half ext3 and half hfs (for transfer
> purposes).
> And suddenly My Macs saw only one partition (and refudes to mount it at
> that!).
>
> The sad news is that I solved it by reformating (but there was nothing
> vital
> on these partitions so I did not look for another solution.
>
> Anyway, does your OS X partition show under OS 9? If yes, you can at least
>
> save your data. If no, you might try booting from the install CD and see
> if
> your OS X partition shows. If even that fails, I see no other option but
> reinstalling.
>
> Thierry