Save Me!!!

[raz]

Those are intentional. You can have as many as you want except between the backslash and HD. Exactly one there.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

[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.

[MacMagus]

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.

[Glued]

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.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Great Aimee Mann song, BTW.

[Glued]

Grrr - siig SATA card won't work from sys9. soon as I switch over to OSX - boom - black rectangle.

[MacMagus]

Try restarting with the key held down.

[Glued]

Doesn't get beyond shift to 'safe mode' - the black rectangle gets there first.

[raz]

How about booting the G5 in Target Disk mode and the G4 in OS 9?

... getting desparate here

[Glued]

Good try raz, target disk wouldn't show up.