[ltp] Re: Partitioning - how to keep IBM recovery partition active?

[Jiang Qian]

No. I have T43 and installed grub on MBR and cannot access recovery any 
more. I happened to installed for some friends on the T41 series. It 
seems that in the older machines like T41 access IBM get you into 
some kind of graphic BIOS, where you can select which device to boot 
in addition to recover system. Apparently some "smart" people in IBM 
decide in T43 to give you a traditional text BIOS and use access IBM to 
boot into some kind of primitive thing run on top of DOS. I don't know. 
But apparently in order to get into this DOS like environment you don't 
want to change your MBR. I don't know for sure but I suspect this is a 
thing  on recent models, both T and R series.
Anyone have better ideas?
Jiang

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:35:51PM -0400, jgidi@umd.umich.edu wrote:
> 
> Quoting honey@gneek.com:
> 
> >T40. Just left recovery partition as it was - in fact, it also works
> >on my second disk where I installed the recovery partition (yes!)
> >from CDs first, then installed XP from them (then resizes it, I think,
> >with parted).  Then installed various distros, mainly Fedora, and
> >put GRUB in the MBR of /dev/hda.  In both cases, hitting the Access
> >IBM button at boot time enters the recovery utils screen: the one
> >with clickable options to get to the BIOS, PC Doctor tools, etc.
> >
> >I can't understand why the boot loader would effect it really, and
> >certainly not the distro, but:
> >
> >T40, Fedora Core 4
> 
> It's becoming pretty apparent that this varies from model to model. I'm on 
> an
> R51. Someone said a day or two ago that they had the same situation on 
> an R50e,
> I think. Could be an R-series quirk?
> 
> Joe
> 
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