[NBLUG/talk] Advanced partition selection

[Andrew]

Lincoln Peters wrote on Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:34:09 -0800:

> However, I've been trying to recover data from a failing hard
> disk on a PowerMac G4, and I wanted to put the disk in a USB
> enclosure so I could read it without having to make any
> changes (and thus risk further data loss).  But since I didn't
> enable advanced partition selection when I built my kernel,
> the kernel can't read the partition table, and interprets the
> drive as being unpartitioned!

Knoppix can understand a Mac partition table. It'll build an
fstab showing all the partitions, but the filesystem type will
be set to "auto". Change that to "hfsplus" and add the "ro"
option, just to be safe. Then modprobe hfsplus, mount your
partition(s) and save your stuff.

A.