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Re: Save Me!!! - raz - 04-16-2007
Those are intentional. You can have as many as you want except between the backslash and HD. Exactly one there.
Re: Save Me!!! - N-OS X-tasy! - 04-16-2007
[quote Glued]As a side note, all this single user mode has got the fans going full force - anything to be concerned about?
That's normal.
Re: Save Me!!! - MacMagus - 04-16-2007
You got kernel panics just from having that drive spinning up while booted under OS X... do you have an OS 9-bootable Mac with a SATA card or a PC with SATA and a copy of MacDrive or an eSATA drive case?
The easiest thing to do would be to mount the drive under a different operating system and erase the file from there.
Re: Save Me!!! - Glued - 04-16-2007
I think this falls under what MacMagus wrote:
I booted into single user mode with the 'bad' drive as the only drive (read only mode). This went okay, even ran fsck. When I tried to mount the drive (/sbin/mount -uw / ..or.. sh /etc/rc) I got:
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0: Fri Sep 8 17:18:57 PDT 2006; root:xnu -792.12.6.obj`1/RELEASE_PPC
panic: We are hanging here...
and a freeze up, fans full spped ahead.
I have a SATA card in the G5 and I have a G4 MDD (OS9 bootable). I'll put the card in the G4 and try accessing the drive from OS9 like MacMagus suggested.
Re: Save Me!!! - N-OS X-tasy! - 04-16-2007
Great Aimee Mann song, BTW.
Re: Save Me!!! - Glued - 04-16-2007
Grrr - siig SATA card won't work from sys9. soon as I switch over to OSX - boom - black rectangle.
Re: Save Me!!! - MacMagus - 04-16-2007
Try restarting with the
Re: Save Me!!! - Glued - 04-16-2007
Doesn't get beyond shift to 'safe mode' - the black rectangle gets there first.
Re: Save Me!!! - raz - 04-17-2007
How about booting the G5 in Target Disk mode and the G4 in OS 9?
... getting desparate here
Re: Save Me!!! - Glued - 04-17-2007
Good try raz, target disk wouldn't show up.