[ltp] GRUB loader on Thinkpad

[Andy Schnaendy]

Hi Glenn,

I think, it's the "makeactive" that does the trick. My grub-entry (which 
has been working with SuSE 9.1 before Debian as well):

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# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title           Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root            (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1
----

>> Is it possible that the IBM WinXP installation disk is installing a
>> recovery partition on the HD that is not showing up on the FSTAB and is
>> skewing my mapping?

"sfdisk -l /dev/hda1" should show you hidden partitions, which IBM does 
create during install (I'm running the IBM supplied XP as well):
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deedlit:/home/andy# sfdisk -l /dev/hda
[...]
/dev/hda1   *      0+  30320   30321-  14326641    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2      30321   58831   28511   13471447+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3      58832   62015    3184    1504440   1c  Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)
[...]
----

Andy