Disk partitions on the Alpha

Kim (bookwyrm@netcom.com)
Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:22:04 -0800 (PST)

I recently had problems with my AXPPCI motherboard and took it in to be
serviced; Digital is saying they do not cover the motherboard only
complete systems- looks like I have $1500 worth of junk unless I can work
something else out through the place I purchased it through. (To the
best I can determine, it is a problem on the motherboard, but the local
Digital Service Center can't confirm that. I can't afford to just go
spending money buying new motherboards to check this. :/ )

In the mean time, when I tried to mount the hard drive from my Alpha
system on my old 486 linux system it refused to because it said the
partition table was bad; just to confirm - does the minlabel program
use a different partitioning scheme, and if so, is there any way to
mount the hard drive on a 486 linux system? Or any way to recover
the data? I know how I had the partitions set up on the hard drive;
if the parition table is in the same spot on the disk, just a different
format, I can :probably: enter the right values for it.

Or am I just out of luck? :/

:Please: email responses. I just installed Caldera on my 486, and had
backed most of my files on my Alpha, and my Alpha crashed before I could
recover them all. Some of these files I do not have backed up anywhere
else. :/

A very unhappy (ex?) Alpha Linux user.
Kim Liu
bookwyrm@netcom.com