Using Linux to repair OSX?

[Laszlo Lebrun]

Hi folks,

 

i am not fond of the command line, nor am I very Unix skilled.

 

So I use to use an USB drive to boot into another OSX whenever i screwed my OSX (which happens frequently).

Chameleon is almighty!

 

But since i can also boot into Linux on the same hard disk, which is faster than USB, i strive to be able to make my repairs from there.

 

HFS+ drivers installed, OSX is accessible. I just haven't got the permissions.

Can someone explain how to get access, without changing them on OSX?

 

 

I've searched for contributions, old ones mention tha you need to disable jounalling, which isn't that sexy. Is it still actual?

To match OSX permissions, would it be enough to create a new Linux user with the same name and same password?

Thank you for advice.

 

I hope for your understanding, try and error is very time consuming, "stealing" your experience is faster and may also help others.

 

Laszlo

[mulcyber]

Hi folks,

 

i am not fond of the command line, nor am I very Unix skilled.

 

So I use to use an USB drive to boot into another OSX whenever i screwed my OSX (which happens frequently).

Chameleon is almighty!

 

But since i can also boot into Linux on the same hard disk, which is faster than USB, i strive to be able to make my repairs from there.

 

HFS+ drivers installed, OSX is accessible. I just haven't got the permissions.

Can someone explain how to get access, without changing them on OSX?

 

 

I've searched for contributions, old ones mention tha you need to disable jounalling, which isn't that sexy. Is it still actual?

To match OSX permissions, would it be enough to create a new Linux user with the same name and same password?

Thank you for advice.

 

I hope for your understanding, try and error is very time consuming, "stealing" your experience is faster and may also help others.

 

Laszlo

 

Mostly the answer is no. I think linux could be used if your MBR was overwritten, and

you had made a backup of your MBR. Then you could use the dd command to rewrite

your backed up MBR and fix the boot0 file of Chameleon which had been overwritten

in the MBR. Otherwise, I find another install of SL to a different partition is useful.