I have a Powerbook 5,9 with a OWC Legacy SSD in it. Recently it doesn't finish booting. Right after the splash screen it just goes black.

If I boot from the MOS 3.1 CD it boots just fine to Ambient and it only sees my boot partition (HFS) and my System Partition (SFS) my Work Partition (IceFS) doesn't show up.

I tried updating and reinstalling MOS, both completed successfully, but the system still goes black after the boot pic.

Any Ideas?

Thanks!

You could try booting from CD and running IceDoctor to rescue your work partition.
http://www.blubbedev.net/icefs/doctor.html

First try start Morphos without s-s (bootmenu) and check status disk in CLI. Command:
INFO
If disk IceFS is novalid use IceDoctor
or

Start MOS without s-s.
Disable disk/partition IceFS
Boot from bootmenu
then you must mount the partitions icefs (Mounter) and fix errors

Tried both suggestions.

The IceFS partition doesn't show up in info and icedoctor doesn't see it as well.

Is my only option a reconfigure/reformat at this point?

Thanks for the help.

Matt

You cannot use icefs as your system partition on a Mac, as the filesystem is not in boot.img and there is no RDB on disc to store the filesystem. Using a RDB is not possible, because the OpenFirmware is unable to mount the required HFS partition, as it does not support RDB.

if you boot via CD and use Mounter you can mount it by hand, but this won´t help booting.

You need to create an SFS partition and install it there, or create an SFS and ICE partition, where the system is located on SFS, so it can mount the ice partition during boot up.

[EDIT], ahh, you already did that! :D Somehow overread that.

Well, in that case you should rename sys:s/user-startup to something else. Same network-startup if that exists in sys:s/.

Afterwards it should boot.

Geit

[ Edited by geit 03.04.2013 - 19:20 ]

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Try disabling s:user-startup (and s:network-startup if you have one) by renaming them, like Geit said.

If that doesnt help, try to disable the IceFS mountlist in sys:Devs/DOSDrivers/ by adding "Activate=0" to it (not 100% sure
about spelling on this one.. have no MorphOS machine here to check)

If it boots ok after that, try mounting the IceFS partition by hand
using Mounter (I think that should work :) If partition is mounted
OK now, then it is probably the "MorphOS startup boogieman" at work
an the only cure is to sprinkle holy water at the monitor for ten seconds.

If it doesnt mount then there should be some error requester displayed.

Thanks for the help.

I removed the ss and ns and she booted.

The ICEFS partition can be mounted with on Boot.

I ran the icedoctor and it locks up tight once it gets to "Rebuilding reuse linkage..4303."

The mount does not reappear after a reboot. Where I can mount it again.

Any ideas?
Matt

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You renamed user-startup and network-startup and it boots now ?

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You mounted it manually from shell ?

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Ok. To bad it locks up, a full log would have been nice..

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I guess you used Mounter to boot it. Do you have a mountlist for
the icefs partition somewhere ?

Leif,

Yes, it boots with the Startup-sequence renamed. The Network-startup doesn't cause a problem being enabled.

I mounted it via the mounter program gui in the tools folder.

Don't have a mountlist...

Agreed to bad is won't finish the repair...

Should I just blow it all away and start over? Can I get it working again without it?

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I hope you mean User-Startup :)

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ok
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Create one with Mounter and save in sys:devs/dosdrivers/
IIRC you need to set the filesystem type to IceFS in the GUI
before saving.

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Begin with finding out what in user-startup is causing hang before doing anything else.

No the startup sequence is the bugger here.

Made me LOL with you comment about the boogie startup sequence.

I will give it a try...

I have uploaded a version of icedoctor.library that should be used
if anyone encounters the freeze at "rebuilding reuse linkage"..
http://blubbedev.net/icefs/dl/icedoctor_lib-test.lha
It will output more information on this pass, which i'd
be very interested in :)

Edit: Reuploaded fixed archive.