How does it not boot? What's the error/symptoms? I know I had OpenBSD booting without a hitch in qemu under OS X. You can either install it from darwinports or there's a GUI wrapper called Q.app available somewhere.
On 03/05/2009, jebyrnes <byr...@msi.ucsb.edu> wrote: > Indeed, that was my first impulse as well once I noticed that the drive > wouldn't mount under osx. Something is odd, however, with VirtualPC, and > though openbsd 4.4 installs just fine, it will not then boot. Even though > once I boot up the virtual machine using the CD, I can mount the newly > formatted and installed drives just fine. Hence, I was wondering if there > was something more direct. > > Hrm. > > -Jarrett > > > Jason Dixon wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:50:48PM -0700, jebyrnes wrote: >>> Hello, all. I have a question. A long time ago in college I ran an >>> openBSD >>> server. It was an old, cantankerous machine, and eventually something >>> happened to the motherboard, and it died. The drives, with all of their >>> data, are still fine. In fact, I'd like to recover the data. In my >>> current >>> situation, I don't have access to the equipment to put together a new box >>> with the old drives in it. I would like to get the data, off, however. >>> All >>> I have is a mac laptop. >>> >>> Will OSX be able to access these drives? Are their any utilities that >>> would >>> help in this? It's been a while since I hacked around at this level, so >>> would appreciate any advice you all could give. Thanks. >> >> Find an external USB enclosure. Toss them in. Connect it. Boot >> OpenBSD in a virtual machine. Mount drive. Read files. >> >> -- >> Jason Dixon >> DixonGroup Consulting >> http://www.dixongroup.net/ >> >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Recovering-data-from-OpenBSD-drive-using-OSX-tp23340252p23361918.html > Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
