Re: HardDisk crash after hpmount

From: Axel Hammerschmidt (hlexa_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:49:25 +0100

guanglei li <lglyahoo-misc@yahoo.com.cn> wrote:

> I am using Apple G3 installed with YellowDog linux. I use BootX to boot
> linux. Because I have just built a new kernel, and want to copy it from
> linux partition into Apple's System Folder. So I type "hpmount
> /dev/sda1 /mnt", it gave some prompts(I can't remember :( ), I choose Y
> but it failed. then I tried /dev/sda2, and it failed either. So I
> abandon hpmounting and reboot.

IMO. No Apple System folder would be on the first or second partition of
your scsi disk. These partitions - up to about /dev/sda5 are reserved
for the disk administration software - drivers etc. Apple System folders
usually are on /dev/sda6 or greater.

You've probably overwritten data on one or more of these partitions.

> But the nightmare came. The G3 can't boot and only a floppy-like icon
> with a question mark flickered on the screen. I reboot G3 using MacOS
> installation disk, and use "disk setup" utility, only to find the
> harddisk(scsi) reported as "uninitialized" What should I do? I have
> spent lot of time customizing my linux and there are lots of important
> data on linux partition. Is there an rescue method? thanks a lot if you
> could give me some help.

Try booting from a Linux CD to access your Linux partition - although
this might not work if your G3 is an Old World machine, and besides, the
whole HDD might be inaccessable because of the overwritten partitions.

You do have a backup? 

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