Partitioning of my disk made it no longer usable
Jordan Hayes
jordan at Morgan.COM
Fri Sep 28 02:59:32 AEST 1990
So, I got the CD/ROM version of A/UX 2.0 yesterday, and set off to
install it. I had previously had a partition at the start of my 300Mb
Wren IV, and so I moved it with SilverLining. I selected the partition
set that included A/UX 2.0 support and SilverLining told me it had to
move my partition. Was that okay? Sure, I clicked. It showed me a
thermometer as it did the moving, and when it was done mumbled
something about the header blocks (?) not being right, and should it
use the backup versions? Sure, I clicked (what else could I do?).
Then I rebooted and I can no longer access my disk. After the Welcome
To Macintosh window comes up, it begins to violently blink at about
10-12 blinks per second, and the machine is dead.
Has anyone seen this before? How can I boot MacOS in order to check
out the partitions? If I disconnect the hard disk from the SCSI chain,
I can boot from my internal hard disk. However, I cannot recconnect
the external drive at this point. Am I screwed? What can I do?
Should I just degauss and try again? I have a backup, but it's not
that recent; I could reconstruct, but I'd rather not.
/jordan
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