Mounting a USB memory stick in the black screen

[Tinpusher]

To get some files off my corrupt OS, I am trying to transfer them to a USB memory stick. However I first need to mount the USB stick in the black text-only screen (what do you call that?- the one you get to if you boot up and hold CMD-S).

How do I do this?

 

[fryke]

If it's still automounted (I'm not sure), it should simply be visible in /Volumes/ ...

 

[Tinpusher]

It wasn't visible in /Volumes/...

What I am trying now is to manually mount it with the following command set:

(after SystemStarter):

//sbin/mount -uw /

then

/sbin/mount_msdos /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/KINGSTON

Where the Memory stick calls itself "Kingston".

... and it's not working!!!

I've just restarted without the USB thing in, and run fsck a few times. It's giving me Overlapped extent allocation as well now (is this serious?!)

 

[mosx86]

It wasn't visible in /Volumes/...

What I am trying now is to manually mount it with the following command set:

(after SystemStarter):

//sbin/mount -uw /

then

/sbin/mount_msdos /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/KINGSTON

Where the Memory stick calls itself "Kingston".

... and it's not working!!!

I've just restarted without the USB thing in, and run fsck a few times. It's giving me Overlapped extent allocation as well now (is this serious?!)

What sort of hardware is the corrupt system on? You could try to target boot it and copy them off that way.