When bad things happen to good Mac's [OT]

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:20:39 -0400, Mark Guertin wrote:

> mkisofs is only for creating ISO media (cdrom media) and should never  
> be used on hard disks or hard disk images.

Again, well aware of that -- I was saying it never handled driver
partitions properly for CDs. In fact, it used code that would be more
suitable (but not quite) for hard disks.

> Are you sure you recreated the partitions exactly as you had them?  I  
> suspect there is a patch partition missing if you still cannot boot,  
> and that drive setup.  Is there any unpartitioned space on the  
> drive?  Drive setup can most certainly use unpartitioned space to  
> create new partitions, have done it many many times.
> 
> Mark

The patch partition was apparently untouched by Drive Genius aside from
being renamed, but it was one of the first things I considered. Restoring
the patch partition from a known working drive (with dd) had no effect.