I have a Pismo PowerBook with its internal hard drive partitioned - an 8GB partition with OSX 10.2.4, and a 3GB partition with OS 9.2. I normally start up from the Jaguar partition. (As my primary backup, I have both these partitions cloned onto corresponding partitions on a FW external drive.)
Yesterday the PowerBook wouldn't start up - I get the Apple logo, but it won't go past that. If I option-boot, this internal OSX partition appears as a startup option, but when I select it, it still won't get past the Apple logo.
With the ext FW HD connected, option-boot allows me to select the external FW OSX partition as the startup drive. Then everything is normal EXCEPT that the internal OSX partition does not mount - nor can I see it using Apple System Profiler. (The OS 9 partition on the same internal HD is visible and available, both when I option-boot, and as a mounted volume when running OSX from the ext FW drive.)
As my backup is an iMove edit or two out of date, I really want to bring this missing partition back to life rather than clone the backup back to the internal HD - and in any case, I can't see the partition I want to clone to. I'm not at all Unix-savvy, but pretty handy otherwise. What's the best way to proceed?
Yesterday the PowerBook wouldn't start up - I get the Apple logo, but it won't go past that. If I option-boot, this internal OSX partition appears as a startup option, but when I select it, it still won't get past the Apple logo.
With the ext FW HD connected, option-boot allows me to select the external FW OSX partition as the startup drive. Then everything is normal EXCEPT that the internal OSX partition does not mount - nor can I see it using Apple System Profiler. (The OS 9 partition on the same internal HD is visible and available, both when I option-boot, and as a mounted volume when running OSX from the ext FW drive.)
As my backup is an iMove edit or two out of date, I really want to bring this missing partition back to life rather than clone the backup back to the internal HD - and in any case, I can't see the partition I want to clone to. I'm not at all Unix-savvy, but pretty handy otherwise. What's the best way to proceed?