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Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode
Authored by: LC on Nov 30, '04 12:15:37AM
You mentioned not being able to run hdiutil when booted single-user; that's true, but I think you can start the services needed before trying to run it. hdiutil needs access to a whole bunch of frameworks at runtime.
I think you might also want to use /usr/sbin/diskutil. In either case, the kextd and other stuff needs to be active ... so the actions in /etc/rc need to be executed first. The last line is SystemStarter which will get you the /System/Library/StartupItems items, including Disks ... I don't remember the last place to stop, to avoid multi-user or graphical login manager ... I think you can -C SystemStarter in case it goes to far or gets stuck; Larry.

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