[HELP] YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX!
Mark Srebnik
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat Jun 28 17:35:01 2003
Hi Bruce & YDL Listers,
Thanks for your reply.
Below is the info you request(I think) from one of my previous posts yesterday.
I can't go back into YDL3 right now as I yanked out that hard drive this morning and made my old OSX hard the Master drive again. Thought this might solve my problem, but no such luck.
Again, my apologies if I've confused anyone with my posts. I've just responded as best I could to each person who was kind enough to try and help me out. If there's a better way to do this, please let me know...
The reason I'm so anxious about getting this fixed right away is that my OSX drive has all my current work files on it, this PMG4 is a recent acquisition and I haven't gotten around to connecting my SCSI tape drive to it yet... ;-( and I still remember the pain of having to send my hard drive in to DriveSavers to get data off of it 3 years ago that cost me $2000! I bought my tape drive ($1100) right after that....
Again, really appreciate everyone who has been trying to help me out!!
Thanks,
Mark
Still Frustrated Mac User
PS. I did email YDL tech support before I posted to list. Finally heard back from them Friday afternoon, but gave incomplete response. Sent them another email and waiting for a response....
[root@localhost root]# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda12 50887100 2270864 46031264 5% /
none 773240 0 773240 0% /dev/shm
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 120
4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 176
5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 232
6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288
7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800
8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312
9: Apple_Bootstrap untitled 2048 @ 1824 ( 1.0M)
10: Apple_HFS "Mac OS X" 129465944 @ 104975696 ( 61.7G)
11: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1572864 @ 3872 (768.0M)
12: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 103398960 @ 1576736 ( 49.3G)
13: Apple_Free Extra 8 @ 234441640
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=234441648 (111.8G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: 23 @ 64, type=0x1
2: 36 @ 120, type=0xffff
3: 21 @ 176, type=0x701
4: 34 @ 232, type=0xf8ff
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hdb'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_Bootstrap Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 120
4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 176
5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 232
6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288
7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800
8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312
9: Apple_HFS "Maxtor-14.5" 30408704 @ 1824 ( 14.5G)
10: Apple_HFS "Maxtor-100" 209711192 @ 30410528 (100.0G)
11: Apple_Free Extra 8 @ 240121720
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=240121728 (114.5G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: 23 @ 64, type=0x1
2: 36 @ 120, type=0xffff
3: 21 @ 176, type=0x701
4: 34 @ 232, type=0xf8ff
pdisk: can't open file '/dev/hdc' (No medium found)
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l/dev/hda12
/sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- /
/sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- e
/sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- /
/sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- a
/sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- 1
/sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- 2
pdisk: bad usage - bad arguments
version 0.8a2 (16 May 2000)
pdisk [-h|--help]
pdisk [-v|--version]
pdisk [-l|--list [name ...]]
pdisk [-r|--readonly] name ...
pdisk [-i|--interactive]
pdisk name ...
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l hda12
pdisk: can't open file 'hda12' (No such file or directory)
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk hda12
pdisk: can't open file 'hda12' (No such file or directory)
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk/dev/hda12
bash: /sbin/pdisk/dev/hda12: Not a directory
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l hda
pdisk: can't open file 'hda' (No such file or directory)
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l dev/hda
pdisk: can't open file 'dev/hda' (No such file or directory)
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l hda12
pdisk: can't open file 'hda12' (No such file or directory)
[root@localhost root]#
-------Original Message-------
From: bruce woller <bwoller@qwest.net>
Sent: 06/28/03 02:50 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: [HELP] YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX!
To fix your problem:
Step1: Select shutdown from whatever system you are in.
Step2: Go to the kitchen and fix yourself a nice cup of Tension Tamer
Tea.
Step3: Go to the deck and enjoy your tea while your assess your
computer's state.
Step4: Boot YellowDog and log in as root.
Step5: Type exactly (no quotes) 'pdisk -l'
Step5: Cut the entire output and post back to the list so our resident
disk format expert Natalie can have a look.
Step6: Wait for a response.
Step7: If you can't wait, a possibility is to boot your OS 9 install CD
and use that system to copy your important files to a safe place. (If
your trackball doesn't work when booted from the install CD then you
have a hardware problem)
The reason I make these suggestions is that it appears that the list is
thrashing trying to figure out the problem but information keeps
wiggling. I, for one am unable to follow all the permutations of what
the hardware state is and what systems are installed where. Just a
suggestion.
Regards,
Bruce
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