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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2012 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reinstalling PowerBook G4 OSX 10.4 partition Reply with quote

This is my partition layout:
Code:
# mac-fdisk -l
/dev/sda
        #                    type name                  length   base      ( size )  system
/dev/sda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/sda2         Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap               1600 @ 64        (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/sda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 2928024 @ 1664      (  1.4G)  Linux swap
/dev/sda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root                31457280 @ 3073664   ( 15.0G)  Linux native
/dev/sda5         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home               269557384 @ 34530944  (128.5G)  Linux native
/dev/sda6               Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2   8493464 @ 304088328 (  4.0G)  HFS
/dev/sda7         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 boot                  143976 @ 2929688   ( 70.3M)  Linux native
/dev/sda8              Apple_Free Extra                     16 @ 312581792 (  8.0k)  Free space
Booting into OSX was broken for a long time. When booting only the apple icon was flashing but did not continue. No logs either and no rescue shell. Maybe the 4G space was getting too small.
Since I'm not versed on OSX I decided to re-install that partition. I only need it to prepare Battery updates and to fetch information about my new battery I just purchased. Can't get that from /sys or /proc.

I boot the install disc of OSX 10.4, erased and formatted the 4G HFS as extended journaled HFS. But the install procedure just returns with "..there have been errors, abort.." or something similar. For not restarting every time I opened a terminal and killed the install process in order to start a new one. But then I was offered a log file of the installation which says that setting the boot device has failed.

So I guess the writing of the native OSX boot manager has failed. How can I repair that without loosing my current partition setup? Loosing yaboot is not the problem if I can recover it by chroot from live CD.
4G should not be the problem, disabling everything at OSX installation results in a 2G installation.
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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe this can be useful. There should be some space around 128M left free after the HFS partition.
I'll check that. But what the hell should that space be used for? Later I would try to resize the partition back to full size.[/url]
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tried to erase that HFS partition and recreate it with a smaller size.

Bad thing: My home partition which is cryptsetup/LUKS encrypted is not readable anymore: Device /dev/sda6 is not a valid LUKS device.

What I did:
  • First I tried to install OSX on the HFS partition as already mentioned. Then I tried to re-format that partition using the Disk Utility from OSX10.4 install disk. Here I already wondered, that the order of the partitions changed in the Utility.
  • Booted up Gentoo, and removed the HFS partition using parted (rm). I recreated the HFS partition with a smaller size (mkpart), using the GB values as start and size. Maybe the values here were not accurate and I cut the home partition beside.
  • I deleted that partition again, this time using mac-fdisk. Partition layout at that moment:
    Code:
    /dev/sda
            #                    type name                  length  base      ( size )  system
    /dev/sda1    Apple_partition_map Apple                    63 @ 1        ( 31.5k)  Partition map
    /dev/sda2        Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap              1600 @ 64        (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
    /dev/sda3        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                2928024 @ 1664      (  1.4G)  Linux swap
    /dev/sda4        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 boot                  143976 @ 2929688  ( 70.3M)  Linux native
    /dev/sda5        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root                31457280 @ 3073664  ( 15.0G)  Linux native
    /dev/sda6        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home              269557384 @ 34530944  (128.5G)  Linux native
    /dev/sda7              Apple_Free Extra                8493480 @ 304088328 (  4.1G)  Free space

    Why is the boot partition here on sda4 and not on sda7 anymore without changing the location? Therefore home is now sda6 instead of sda5 and still not readable:
    Code:
    $ LC_ALL=C ryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda6 _dev_home
    Device /dev/sda6 is not a valid LUKS device.

  • I tried to recreate the same partition layout and recreated the HFS partition as before:
    Code:
    $ mac-fdisk -l
    /dev/sda
            #                    type name                  length  base      ( size )  system
    /dev/sda1    Apple_partition_map Apple                    63 @ 1        ( 31.5k)  Partition map
    /dev/sda2        Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap              1600 @ 64        (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
    /dev/sda3        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                2928024 @ 1664      (  1.4G)  Linux swap
    /dev/sda4        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 boot                  143976 @ 2929688  ( 70.3M)  Linux native
    /dev/sda5        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root                31457280 @ 3073664  ( 15.0G)  Linux native
    /dev/sda6        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home              269557384 @ 34530944  (128.5G)  Linux native
    /dev/sda7              Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2  8493464 @ 304088328 (  4.0G)  HFS
    /dev/sda8              Apple_Free Extra                    16 @ 312581792 (  8.0k)  Free space

    Home still not readable.
    The only difference still is the ordering. Is there any chance to get that home partition back? Is data affected by changing the partition table so that I just try different partition tables and try cryptsetup to read it?

Is using parted instead of mac-fdisk generally bad and can break partitions? Did re-formatting with OSX already break my partition table, maybe even data of the partition beside?

app-admin/testdisk is able to read mac partitions. But the quick scan only finds partitions as mentioned above, the deep scan finds a lot of potential partitions with the same names. But the home partition did not even change its location reading the lists above... please help.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found the command "reorder" on mac-fdisk and re-arranged the original order of partitions, so boot is now sda7 again as before:
Code:
/dev/sda
        #                    type name                  length   base      ( size )  system
/dev/sda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/sda2         Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap               1600 @ 64        (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/sda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 2928024 @ 1664      (  1.4G)  Linux swap
/dev/sda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root                31457280 @ 3073664   ( 15.0G)  Linux native
/dev/sda5         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home               269557384 @ 34530944  (128.5G)  Linux native
/dev/sda6               Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2   8493464 @ 304088328 (  4.0G)  HFS
/dev/sda7         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 boot                  143976 @ 2929688   ( 70.3M)  Linux native
/dev/sda8              Apple_Free Extra                     16 @ 312581792 (  8.0k)  Free space

But LUKS is still not readable from sda5.
I tried luksDump from every partition, no success. I tried cryptsetup repair /dev/sda5, no success. Even if parts of the end of the partition were damaged, it should be possible to find at least some LUKS header around?
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