Hey guys

I was trying to play a DVD with mplayer but I select the wrong IDE device and it tried to play my hard disk! This locked up my system, I rebooted it but now I just see the Morphos boot logo and then my monitor gets no signal.

I know the system has crashed as inserting a DVD and pressing eject on the keyboard is non-responsive in this state.

If I boot from MorphOS boot CD I can see my drives and all the data appears in tact. Any idea why I can no longer boot from my hard disk?

I tried to do another upgrade install from the installer CD and it turns out the hard disk is now full of "block id errors". Copying what I can off it to a separate partition and will have to do a fresh install.

Word of warning though, be careful selecting the device for Mplayer, it seems it can have disastrous results!

UPDATE: Ok I can't copy my files off as the machine time-outs with the demo from the CD...

I tried SFSDoctor on the volume and it says its repaired, but the system still will not boot.

Is there anyway to back the data up via the CD-ROM boot as I cannot boot from my System drive any more?

[ Edited by danwood 15.10.2012 - 23:02 ]

Is this your boot partition that is fried? if it is just the boot partition, maybe you could delete the one partition and repartition that section of the drive and remake it into your boot partion again, and install MOS... I hope you have your Morphos Key saved somewhere else first?

> I can't copy my files off as the machine time-outs with the demo
> from the CD... [...] Is there anyway to back the data up via the
> CD-ROM boot as I cannot boot from my System drive any more?

You may want to create a MorphOS CD with keyfile included:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8535&forum=3&start=8

I would do the following in your situation.

Grab an usb key and plug it in.
Grab the boot CD and boot the disk.
Download MorphOS.iso to the usb stick.
Download http://www.geit.de/stupid/RegisterISO.lha to the usb stick.
Copy the MorphOS.key to the usb stick.
Double click the RegisterISO.lha and drag out RegisterISO binary to the usb stick.
Open a shell and call
cd UMSD0:
RegisterISO MorphOS_3.1.iso MorphOS.key
Now it will take some time to inject the key.
Insert an empty CD and launch Jalapeno
Drag the iso from usb stick into the window and burn.

Since you store all data on the usb stick, feel free to reboot at any time to reset your timeout. Especially before burning the disk.

Now you have a boot cd without any timeout registered for your system.

Geit

I'd say it's a coincidence, because i selected wrong device many times in the past, and the only effect is it does nothing at all. It's just raw read access, nothing is written at all.

The error was probably to reboot while there was still disk access.



[ Edited by Fab 16.10.2012 - 10:57 ]

> It's just raw read access, nothing is written at all. The error was
> probably to reboot while there was still disk access.

Rebooting during (raw) read access is not safe with MorphOS? :-)