[ltp] Asking help-- to install Linux(Redhat 7.3) on Thinkpad T30-2366-92J

[Norman Levin]

Marcus Horstmann wrote:
>> Seth Kulick wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:30:02PM +0200, Marcus Horstmann wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Do  you still get the F1 and F12 keys on boot, even if you don't
>>> get the F11 anymore?  The "Press F1 for IBM BIOS Setup Utility"
>>> seems crucial to be able to enter the BIOS  setup program, unless
>>> there's another way to do it. I don't want to lose the ability to
>>> get into that, if I start fooling around with the MBR.  Still
>>> having the "Press F12 to choose temporary boot device" would also
>>> be nice. 
>>> 
>> I still get F1 and F12 which both working fine.
>> 
>>   Marcus

The f11 for the recovery partition is from IBMs little 'multiboot' loader.
Since you overlay it with grub, you don't get the message.  However, you
can tell grub to boot the hidden partition and do the recover from it.
Despite the warnings... the recover partition ONLY hits C:

Finally, get the CDs and live without the recover partition.
And really finally, if you NEED to us the recovery CD's, on boot up, do NOT
have TP do one time boot from CDs.  You MUST change the bootlist to CD
because there are successive reboots during the install and if you do the
temporary one, the 2nd and so on will come from the harddisk.  Doesn't 
lead to a successful restore.
norm