Hi Daniel, Which Mac is it?
Hopefully you should be able to recover the error - you might need to boot his Mac OS X disks which should enable you to get OpenProm to recognise the HFS part of the disk again. Fred On 5/2/09, Tony Abernethy <t...@servacorp.com> wrote: > Daniel Ouellet wrote: >> Tony Abernethy wrote: >> >> disklabel, of fdisk >> >> to look only, looks like there is only one partition now. >> > Dunno if that is looking at MBR in memory or MBR on disk >> > If MBR on disk is still the same, should be OK after boot. >> >> That's not from memory for sure. >> >> Power off and on show the same thing. >> >> > If MBR on disk has changed, need exact make model of disk drive >> > and maybe somebody with same can read the critical values. >> > Dunno about MAC, but I've had a Windows partition refdisked >> > reformatted, should have been all gone and all the original >> > contents showed back up. >> >> I don't think this will do anything really. >> >> As far as I understand trying to learn to may be fix is that >> you would >> have 4 partition there. >> >> 1. EFI >> 2. MAC OS X HFS+ >> 3. EFI System (FAT) >> 4. the OpenBSD one as id A6 >> >> Now, id for 1, 2 and 3 are 00 and 4 is A6 with type OpenBSD >> and all the >> size for that one and all the three others 0. >> >> For what I understand so far is that I would need to somehow restore >> these 4 partition informations with the right id on them and >> all should >> be fine as no data was changed on the data part of the drive anyway. >> >> I just have no clue yet as to how to do this, or if possible. >> >> How to even figure out what side each one should be and what type??? >> >> I won't do anything until I am sure, but I am disparately >> searching so >> far to find any clue as to how to proceed. >> >> I believe it should really be possible, but not there yet for >> sure anyway. >> >> Best, >> >> Daniel >> > This is from an IBM T41 (booting from USB) > sd0 is the USB drive. wd0 is the hard disk with only NT on it. > YOURS will be considerable more complicated. > ALL those numbers in the middle need their correct values. > # fdisk sd0 > Disk: sd0 geometry: 3949/16/63 [3981312 Sectors] > Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 > Starting Ending LBA Info: > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > 0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > *3: A6 0 1 1 - 3936 8 63 [ 63: 3967992 ] OpenBSD > # fdisk wd0 > Disk: wd0 geometry: 4697/240/63 [71029746 Sectors] > Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 > Starting Ending LBA Info: > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > *0: 07 0 1 1 - 4696 239 63 [ 63: 71018577 ] NTFS > 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > What you want are all those values relevant to YOUR system. > > Maybe somebody has a similar system (Sorry, no MACs here)
