-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry if this is the wrong list, but I've hit an interesting problem. My iBook Firewire locked up while I was working in Emacs, and now the machine won't boot any more.
Specifically, I was in KDE with Emacs and a few shells open writing some code. On one operation the Emacs screen stopped painting. The shells would still paint, but no apps would load. 'ps' stopped one shell working, then the other stopped. I've seen similar before when the HDD wouldn't spin up ages ago. After powering down, the mac 'Can't find a startup disk' icon flashes. Booting the Mac restore CD and running the disk manager shows the main drive as uninitialised, and Apple System Profiler shows the disk as there but having no partitions. I can hear the disk spinning. The machine is running Mac OS 9.1, a recent Debian/unstable, a stock 2.4.17+ext3 kernel, and yaboot 1.3.3 patched for ext3. And, no, I wasn't doing anything evil before it happened :) It seems that I've lost my partition table, and perhaps more. Any suggestions for recovering my data? I have access to a x86 Linux machine, but I don't know if ext3 fiddles with the byte order. - -- Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxSUn4ACgkQ3L3H1ImjCiR0gwCfV+hUC7XI6/XlONyhJsyREjGp qrIAoIvvFQEOkQaBCOwlcpJc+bOfKDHm =JSaj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
