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

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:53:16 -0400


jgidi@umd.umich.edu wrote:
> 
> Harald,
> 
> 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.

On my R31, the option to boot into the recovery partition appears right
at the beginning of the boot process, before GRUB is running and even
before the boot password prompt.