[ltp] X22 issues

[Dr. Edmund Weitz]

Kevin Krause <kevin@sutje.de> writes:

> On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 18:43:17 -0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> 
> > 3. IBM have not provided a rescue disk but have instead used a
> > rescue partition, which is the strangest idea I've ever heard.
> > What if I need to rescue the machine because the disk crashed?  As
> > you can imagine, this is a large partition (~750M) - does anyone
> > know if it can be burnt onto a couple
> 
> I asked IBM for recovery CDs (for my X21), and they charged me USD20
> for them. At least they sent me both NT and W2K. It's up to you
> whether you find this useful or not. Also, it seems like the magic
> "Press F11" function has something to do with the boot sector,
> because after installing Linux and LILO, the message was
> gone. Including that partition in lilo.conf didn't enable me to boot
> from it, so I scratched it.

For thouse of you who still have this partition around: Daniel
Hottinger has some valuable information about it at
<http://hotti.2y.net/doc/linux_on_t22.html> (including how to create a
recovery boot floppy _after_ lilo has overwritten the IBM bootloader).

Edi.

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