[ltp] "Missing operating system" when booting restorepartition

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:09:26 -0400


Jaime Iniesta wrote:
> What did you tell IBM to convince them of sending the restore disks? I
> guess that if you tell them that you changed the partitions, installed
> another OS, etc., they would't like it... I mean like "sorry, but we
> only support Windows, you broke your drive with Linux, so you fix it on
> your own" or something like that...

When I got mine, I just had to ask.  I didn't have to give a reason.
However, I was told that I got them for free, because I'd ordered them
before the warranty ran out.