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From: briggs@dg-rtp.dg.com (Allen Briggs VPI intern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Accessing A/UX partition from Mac OS
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Date: 22 Jun 89 19:22:12 GMT
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Reply-To: briggs@dg-rtp.dg.com (Allen Briggs VPI intern)
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A couple of months ago, my A/UX system crashed (it was crashing a lot
due to a flaky PMMU).  When I brought it up again, it didn't get beyond
the SASH window.  In fact, it barely got into the launch command, because
chroot() failed.  I tried just about everything to recover my files, but
it was all to no avail, since not even the lowest level tools I could find
would search past the Mac partition of the drive.  For future reference,
are there any tools that have been written that ignore partitions?
Apparently, the only thing wrong with the file system was that the root
inode was corrupted.  Any ideas on what I should have done?  (What I did
was copy the distribution from my Apple support center, which destroyed
all the data that was on the drive.)

Thanks for any suggestions.

	Allen Briggs
		briggs@dg-rtp.dg.com
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