[Gllug] Cygwin confusion...

[John Edwards]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:16:16PM +0000, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> I would use Linux for this job but Linux WILL NOT BOOT with this drive
> attached where as windows WILL - that's why I'm using windows, the Linux
> kernel quite literally crashes during the boot process.

Does "quite literally crashes" mean that a kernel panic happens with
an error message? On most Ubuntu systems you need to edit the boot
options to remove "quiet" and "splash" to see all the error messages.

Also have you tried putting the drive into a USB, Firewire, or eSATA
enclosure and connecting it after the kernel has finished booting?

Booting a BSD could be another way to get access to a UNIX system.


> I simply thought
> I'd ask if anyone knew the drive path syntax for ddrescue under cygwin
> and how to get it to append to an image rather than overwrite it as I
> have already imaged 80% of this drive.

Here's the cygwin docs on /dev devices and the corresponding
Windows device names:
	http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html


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