System Recovery

[Labitt, Bruce]

It looks like the partition of interest might
be /dev/sdb2 so to mount it read only, try this:

   mkdir                /tmp/recovery
   mount -oro /dev/sdb2 /tmp/recovery
   cd                   /tmp/recovery
   ls -la

...etc, etc.
 
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[Labitt, Bruce] 
Hmm, close, but not quite.  I get the message

mount: you must specify the file system type

So I tried

mount -oro -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 /tmp/recovery and got

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2,
missing code page or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

So I did.  The last 3 lines were:

mtrr: type mismatch for c00000000,10000000 old: write-back new:
write-combining
hfs: unable to find HFS+ superblock
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdb2

Are there any reasonable options left?

-Bruce