[ltp] Need a crash course on T60 boot loaders, SVP

[Michael Gaber]

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James PEARSON schrieb:
> Hello all
> 
> Where is the boot loader installed on T60s... and how is it setup???
> 
> The reason that I am asking is that my T60's hard drive is a Seagate Momentus 7200.1 SATA-100 that I
> installed myself. It dual booted openSUSE 10.2 and windows fine - until yesterday, that is, when I inadvertently
> deleted the hidden IBM partition - and since that I can't boot. 
> 
> This obviously means that the boot manager (grub in my case) was installed in the boot sector of the the hidden
> partition (i.e. custom boot partition)
> 
> Since then I have reinstalled the boot loader to the following partitions
> - root partition
> - boot partition
> - master boot partition
> 
> None of the above choices have worked i.e my T60 won't boot. The obvious solution is to use my Thinkpad
> advantage CDs and restore everything but I would first like to understand but is going on here.
> 
> For example, when I installed the boot loader to master boot partition, the following options were selected
> - use master boot partition
> - set active flag in partition table for boot record
> - write generic code to MBR
> 
> 
> Why doesn't the above work? It works on other PCs (i.e tower case PCs and HP portables and the like). 
> 
> 
> Any comments, help or guidance would be greatly appreciated
> 
> TIA
> James

normally removing the hidden partition wouldn't be a problem. have you 
also resized partitions, all data still available? try to check this 
with a livecd

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