[ltp] Basic setup t60p - build MBR

[James PEARSON]

Hello Gerard

If you look at my post "Need a crash course on T60 boot loaders, SVP" you will see that I am asking
a question close to yours. Newer Thinkpads appear to have "special" MBR - where special means different and out
of the ordinary.

IMO, you have two choices:
- use your recovery disks and re install Windows (you did make recovery disks, didn't you?). This will
reinstall you MBR.
- re install openSUSE (hint, do a full install!!!) and pay particular attention to the # boot loader # selection
you make. Play with the different choices. 

Note : if you re install openSUSE and opt to install the  # boot loader # to the master boot partition all
will work but you will lose access to the blue Thinkadvantage button. This is what I finally I had to do this
this last weekend and reinstalling serval times - openSUSE and Windows both boot now - note the order :)  

Note : I was installing openSUSE on the SATA internal hd, not to the Ultrabay. If nothing else works, make a 10
Gig partition and opt for the first option because it will allow you to boot one or the other OS. Worked for me.

Hope this helps

Regards
James  

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:33:21 +0200
"Ceruti, Gerard G" <Gerard.Ceruti@standardbank.co.za> wrote:

> Hi Folks
>  
> This past weekend I installed openSUSE 10.2 onto a Ultrabay HDD all went well until the reboot.
> (XP is installed on the SATA internal drive) Grub reported 'ERROR 21' I checked the conf files but was unable
> to see any error as both drives where there. I then looked to rebuild the MBR of XP so that I could at least
> get the Thinkpad up , now here is where the fun started, IBM's recovery CD's do not allow you to get into M$S
> recovery console ( to issue the FIXMBR cmd) it wants to take the T60 back to factory settings , no thanks,
> trying all the other Boot disks ( getting a USB disk drive is another story) www.bootdisk.com and M$S
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=535D248D-5E10-49B5-B80C-0A0205368124&displaylang=en
> none recognise the SATA drive. Anyone got any ideas please. Regards Gerard
> 
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