Re: Disk partitions on the Alpha
Linus Torvalds (Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Thu, 11 Jan 1996 19:04:24 +0200
Kim: "Disk partitions on the Alpha" (Jan 9, 8:22):
>
> 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.
You just have to recompile your x86 linux to know about OSF/1
partitions: define "CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION" in genhd.c..
(yes, it works, I've done this when I needed to fix a filesystem problem
and had done stupid things to my alpha..)
Linus