On Tue, Jun 26, Jean-Philippe Moins wrote:
I lost my iMac boot (suse-ppc7.1, OS9.0.4) after a dumb installation of LVM under YAST1 to the whole hard disk. Disclaimer: yes, I was stupid fooling around with LVM not knowing what it was.
How did you enter the LVM setup menu? It should be disabled (grey) on powermacs.
I can lose both OS installs, but I would like to see my data back !! Initially I installed my system along the Suse book, and added a large hfs partition readable both under linux and macOS. Of course I do not have a copy of the partition table...
There is no way to get the data back. Boot CD1, start yast1, switch to console2 with ALT+F2 and run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda for a few seconds. That will remove the broken partition table (it contains now a fdisk and pdisk label). Then reboot with the MacOS CD and create a fresh partition map with Drive Setup. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...