Fink Commander crashed and seems to have taken my whole OS X system
down. The system on my G5 single hung at the grey start up apple on
restart (after I tried flushing the PRAM), so I booted from my Tiger
install disk, and tried running the Disk Repair app and got the
following:
<br><br>- Keys out of order<br>- Rebuilding Catalog B-tree<br>- The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired<br>- Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit<br><br>1 HFS volume checked<br> 1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
<br>Repair attempted on 1 volume could not be repaired<br><br>"First Aid failed: The underlying task reported failure on exit."<br><br>I have installed a copy of Tiger onto an external Firewire HD
and installed a copy of Disk Warrior (3.0.3) as well. Disk Warrior is running extremely slow. It has been work on my HD (150 GB) for about 12 hours now and it doesn't to be doing much of anything. Disk Warrior has a message that states "Speed inhibited by disk malfunction." I am wondering how long I should wait (more or less patiently) until I should give up. Should I use another tool instead, like Apple Jack... or?
<br><br>An alternative is that I have Xubuntu Edgy installed on another internal SATA
drive on my G5 single. And I am able to boot up from that. I have run
'sudo mkdir /mnt/ osx' and 'sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb3 /mnt/osx'
and I have access to my OS X HD, but when I get to my user profile,
all of the folders are locked, except "bookmarks" and "desktop". Anyone know how I gain access to these? I need to backup documents, photos (including
iPhoto), iTunes music, passwords from the keyring, etc. onto an extra HFS+ partition on my Firewire drive.<br><br>Cheers,<br><span class="sg"><br>Brian</span>