[KLUG Members] Mount iBook HDD

[Lunitix]

Two cents -

I just had the logic board replaced for the second time in my iBook.  I 
could not get a usable screen (interpreted black screen), but I could 
start it up and used ssh, scp, and rsync from my Linux Box to get the 
information I wanted off of it before sending it in for work.  So I 
would try powering it up, even if you can't see what's going on, let it 
run long enough to boot, then try to ssh into it.  I fyou can, then you 
can use scp to get you info off the Mac.

Jon
Minding of Madness

Jamie McCarthy wrote:
> Possible bad RAM.  Have you tried pulling the RAM DIMM(s) and
> reseating them?  That won't void your warranty.  Worth a try.
> 
> 
>>Can I just plug it into the Linux box with a crossover cable
>>and will Red Hat mount it? If not, is there a way to do this?
> 
> 
> You mean an Ethernet cable?  No, it doesn't work that way;  the
> computer has to boot into a running operating system before you
> can transfer files from the hard drive across the network.
> 
> If you have a second Mac, you can try connecting them with a
> Firewire cable and holding down T to mount the iBook's disk.
> 
> And, you can try manually removing the iBook's HD, plugging it
> into a Linux box (using a 2.5"-to-3.5" IDE converter, probably;
> I have one if you want to borrow it) and using dd_rescue or
> similar to make a backup image.  But that will void your warranty
> and it's not for the meek.  iBook drives are hard to get to.
> 
> Once you do that, you can probably install a kernel module to
> read the Mac OS X filesystem from Linux, and mount that image on
> Linux to pull off the files, which is I think what you're asking
> about.  I don't know the details, but that's the easy part.