[ltp] IBM Recovery CDs, partitions

[Ignacio Fernández Galván]

Henk Jansen, 30-09-2005:

> I bought an R52 in Holland 2 months ago. I was *very* unsuccessful in
> trying to install Linux in parallel with pre-installed XP version by
> IBM: not only did XP refuse to load when grub was in the master boot
> record (MBR), even the default NTLDR (Windows bootloader), together with
> a dd'd linux.bin (containing the 512 bytes of the boot section) in the
> C: partion refused to recognize the linux boot partion.

My experience with an R51 is this.

Grub installed on a hda3 (/boot partition, not MBR).
hda1 set as active partition.
hda3 boot sector copied to C: (with dd) an boot.ini set accordingly.
Everything works fine. I get NTLDR and then Grub.

Same setup, but now hda3 set as active partition.
As far as I can tell, this should make Grub appear without NTLDR.
However, I get some kind of "No OS found" error.

Didn't try other setups (particularly, Grub on MBR), since the first one  
is enough for my needs.

		
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