Re: Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

2009-05-05 Thread Nick Guenther
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 wrote: > Indeed, that was my first impulse as well once

Re: Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

2009-05-03 Thread jebyrnes
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 formatt

Re: Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

2009-05-01 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:13:38PM -0400, bofh wrote: > On 5/1/09, 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 eventual

Re: Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

2009-05-01 Thread bofh
I'd s/external usb enclosure/ide+sata->usb adapter/ Much more flexible, and cheaper, iirc. On 5/1/09, 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, canta

Re: Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

2009-05-01 Thread Jason Dixon
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 st