Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-27 Thread johnny-crash
. Probably just a coincidence. So it looks like this is the end of PPC (and debian on this architecture) for me. Thank you for your solicitousness ;) Cheers, john -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Disk-screwed-up-with-ybin-tp31432304p31488951.html Sent from the debian-powerpc

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-21 Thread johnny-crash
t to nothing. However, I'll prepare for happy easter disassembling. I meant that I boot my Linuxbox with that rescue-CD while the disk is connected via USB getting at least a clue what happened. Cheers, john -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Disk-screwed-up-with-ybin-tp3143

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-21 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le jeudi 21 avril 2011 à 05:16 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > So, next step failed. There is no target mode anymore ;-( You mean, it does nothing at all? So, yes, your disk appears no to work whatever the mean. > Subsequently there is only one hope left. Maybe it is the controller and not > the

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-21 Thread johnny-crash
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Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread bunk3m
You could use the Live-CD System Rescue CD. It contains smartctl and a number of others. Please note that it runs on Intel processor. The PPC version is very old. But if you have the disk in an enclosure and access to an Intel processor PC then you can easily plug the enclosure with problem dis

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread johnny-crash
Cool, thx. I think first I try to do a target mode with my Linux box and use testdisk and smarttools in order to gain information or even save data. Btw, do you know a proper live-rescue-CD for PPC? john -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Disk-screwed-up-with-ybin

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 06:32 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > Yes, I was able to boot the macosx and debian rescue CD but neither OS from > disk. > Thus I'll do my tests and post my findings. You could run smartctl from linux live CD, then, to see how bad is your disk. It's in the smartmontool

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread johnny-crash
Yes, I was able to boot the macosx and debian rescue CD but neither OS from disk. Thus I'll do my tests and post my findings. Thank you, john -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Disk-screwed-up-with-ybin-tp31432304p31441211.html Sent from the debian-powerpc mailing

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread johnny-crash
Yes, I was able to boot the macosx and debian rescue CD but neither OS from disk. Thus I'll do my tests and post my findings. Thank you, john -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Disk-screwed-up-with-ybin-tp31432304p31441209.html Sent from the debian-powerpc mailing

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 05:39 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > Sorry that this was misleading. Ok, I see, no problem. > Right, no yaboot, no OS at all. White screen means just a white screen. No > apple logo, nothing. OpenFirmware works though. To be sure I understand: you used to be able to

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread johnny-crash
al with macosx stuff) - putting my old disk (with macosx) or even a new one in the mac to see whether it has another hw- issue Cheers, john -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Disk-screwed-up-with-ybin-tp31432304p31440880.html Sent from the debian-powerpc mailing list archive at

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 16:46 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > boot=/dev/hda2 > device=/pci@f400/ata-6@d/disk@0: > partition=3 > root=/dev/hda3 > timeout=100 > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > enablecdboot > macosx=/dev/hda4 > defaultos=macosx > > image=/boot

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-19 Thread johnny-crash
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Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-19 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 08:25 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > The disk is quite new and I had never issues and just now after playing with > ybin and rebooting a couple of times it dies? Seems to be a big coincidence > but, on the other hand, who knows? Well, maybe I was a bit quick at diagnosin

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-19 Thread johnny-crash
put the disk into another (at best apple system) and see what options are left. Cheers, john -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Disk-screwed-up-with-ybin-tp31432304p31433666.html Sent from the debian-powerpc mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-19 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 06:00 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > […] the whole system froze and after > a hard reset there was no yboot anymore. Just a white blank screen. > I booted a macosx CD and wanted to repair the partitions but the 160 GB are > just somehow 20 GB now. Thus I did nothing.

Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-19 Thread johnny-crash
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