[ydl-gen] Re: HFS+ mount is read only -- how to make RW? (YDL 4.0.1)

[Jurvis LaSalle]

On Dec 3, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Jeffrey Paul Burger wrote:

> Yes, I believe the entire HFS+ disk was a single partition.
>
> It occurs to me that my best bet at this point may be to get/use use
> CD-based OS X disk tools to fix the Mac disk in it's native format,  
> rather
> than from the "foreign" environment of Linux. Something along the  
> lines of
> Disk Tools, Norton or TechTools. Any suggestions out there?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Jeff
>
>
>> From: "R. Hirschfeld" <ray at unipay.nl>
>> Reply-To: <ray at unipay.nl>
>> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:48:01 +0100
>> To: <jeff at sedona.net>
>> Cc: <yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Re: HFS+ mount is read only -- how to make  
>> RW? (YDL
>> 4.0.1)
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:17:49 -0700
>>> From: Jeffrey Paul Burger <jeff at sedona.net>
>>
>>> pdisk: Bad data in block 2 from '/dev/sdb'
>>
>> It occurs to me that this could also be because you never had a
>> partition map on /dev/sdb but rather had an HFS+ filesystem spanning
>> the entire device, in which case ignore the last part of my previous
>> message (about pdisk/parted).
>>
>> Ray
>

I would give your OS X install disk a try first.  After you boot from  
it, select Disk Utility from the the Utilities menu and attempt a  
repair on the damaged volume.  Good luck.

JL