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

Jiang Qian linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 05:27:49 -0400


Hi Harry:
I tried what you said in last email and still got blue screen when 
booting to access IBM. Did you install GRUB on MBR or the boot sector 
of your linux partition? It could be that they did something quirky to 
T43. I don't know. Thanks anyway.
Jiang
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:45:58AM +0200, Harald Staub wrote:
> Hi Joe
> 
> > Have you tested actually booting the recovery partition from GRUB? When I
> > installed Ubuntu, it automatically generated a GRUB entry for the recovery
> > partition, but trying to actually boot it resulted in an error.
> 
> Yes, since having added the hide/unhide stuff, I can successfully boot all
> my menu entries, including the recovery partition. Before that, I had a very
> ugly error I cannot remember exactly (blue screen or so).
> 
> Cheers
>  Harry
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