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This isn't particularly a Gentoo issue, but Gentoo users seem to have much |
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more of a clue than Joe Sixpack. |
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On my main hard drive, I have one partition with OS X, one with Gentoo |
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(Yaboot isn't set up correctly, but that's another email), and one with |
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Yellowdog. I have two additional hard drives. One contains all my media |
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files, the other is an old (c.1995) hard drive of mine. |
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Before I installed Yellowdog, I properly set up my partitions on my main |
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hard drive. Yellowdog installed sans problem and boots sans problem. |
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The Yellowdog installation process, though, overwrote the partition maps of |
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my secondary and tertiary hard drive with boot partitions. (The boot |
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partitions are not 800kB, as I thought Linux boot partitions were. Instead, |
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they are the same size as the Apple Partition Maps.) OS X no longer |
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recognizes either drive. Since my old hard drive had nothing of interest on |
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it, I played around with both mac-fdisk and parted in an attempt to restore |
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the missing partition map, but I had no success. If I boot into a Gentoo |
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LiveCD environment, I can access the corrupted drives without a problem. |
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The only method to retrieve the files that I can think of is to set up an |
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FTP/Samba/rsync server in a Linux environment and transfer them to a second |
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hard drive. I don't have another 120GB hard drive laying around, though. |
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I'm not well versed in hard drive tools. |
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If anyone knows of a simpler way to restore the partition map to its |
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previous state, please let me know. |
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chris |
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