[ltp] T30 on-disk recovery

[Richard Neill]

Yes, here it is:
But...I don't know how useful it will be to you, since I deleted my 
recovery partition. (I still use 98 once in a blue moon, but if I loose 
it, I loose it. After all, the hourly crashes are what drove me to linux!)

---------Lilo.conf-----------------

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=Linux-Mdk-8-2
keytable=/boot/uk.klt
lba32
prompt
nowarn
timeout=30
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
   label=Linux-Mdk-8-2
   root=/dev/hda5
   initrd=/boot/initrd.img
   append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
   vga=788
   read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
   label=linux-nonfb
   root=/dev/hda5
   initrd=/boot/initrd.img
   append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
   read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
   label=Failsafe
   root=/dev/hda5
   initrd=/boot/initrd.img
   append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi"
   read-only
other=/dev/hda1
   label=Windows98
   table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
   label=Floppy
   unsafe

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----------fdisk -l--------(sorry for line wraps)--------

Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 4134 
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

                                 Device Boot  Start   End    Blocks   Id 
  System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1   *       1  1109   8384008+   c 
  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2        1110  4134  22869000    5 
  Extended
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5        1110  1987   6637648+  83 
  Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6        1988  2125   1043248+  82 
  Linux swap
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7        2126  4134  15188008+  83 
  Linux

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Best wishes

Richard

Pekka Pessi wrote:
> Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>>You can always boot the recovery partition using the linux bootloader
>>(grub/lilo) - just add it as an extra option.
> 
> 
> 	Do you have your grub or lilo configuration and fdisk -l info
> 	available? I was not able to boot from my recovery partition after
> 	I had destroyed the main XP partition while installing Linux. It
> 	may be difference between XP and 98, however.
> 
> 						Pekka