[ltp] "debian update-grub script" and thinkpad hidden recovery

[Jiang Qian]

One word of advice: you certainly do NOT want to install linux 
bootloader, grub or lilo, in MBR. I did that and as far as I know 
there's no known way to boot back to recovery partition. Install on the 
boot record of the linux partition and use windows bootloader to boot 
linux.
Jiang
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:52:38PM -0700, Calvin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a question regarding debian and the thinkpad hidden recovery
> partition; I have "secured" it in the bios and was wondering if I
> installed debian if it will cause any problems if I ever wanted to
> boot back into the recovery partition. I've read up a little bit upon
> this subject but I'm still a bit confused as to how I shoudl go about
> installing without removing my ability to boot into the recovery
> partition.
> 
> Calvin.
> 
> On 10/17/05, Paul RIVIER <paul.rivier@eleve.emn.fr> wrote:
> > great, thank you very much.
> > Sorry to ask such a question here I didn't think it was so ... :)
> > anyway, now it is fix thank you.
> >
> > paul
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul RIVIER wrote:
> >
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > When I installed ubuntu on my thinkpad, the partition table was the
> > > following :
> > > 0) partition hard-hidden by my bios (thinkpad, "recoverey partition")
> > > 1) /
> > > 2) /home
> > > 3) swap
> > >
> > > So my system (and my kernel by the way) was installed on hda1.
> > >
> > > Then I managed to unhide the hidden '0' partition, and I use now this
> > > space for the swap. So today it is :
> > >
> > > 1) swap
> > > 2) /
> > > 3) home
> > >
> > > after fixing 1 or 2 things all went allright ...
> > > BUT !! :)
> > >
> > > The "debian update-grub script" (and maybe some others stuffs) STILL
> > > believe that hda1 is my '/', and each time there is a kernel or module
> > > update my menu.lst is regenerated with the incorrect partition number,
> > > and I have to manually fix it.
> > >
> > > Any idea where to find this data and fix it at the root please ? Thanx :)
> > >
> > >
> > > Paul
> >
> >
> > --
> > The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
> >
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