[ltp] Partitioning - how to keep IBM recovery partition active?

[Peter B. West]

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honey@gneek.com wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, jgidi@umd.umich.edu wrote:
> 
>> When you restart, Windows should load. It will complain about the size 
>> of the
>> partition being changed, but it should still boot up fine. If your 
>> Windows
>> installation is working ok, you need to set up NTLDR to dual-boot to 
>> Linux.
> 
> 
>> If you need to use the recovery partition, just press the
>> blue "Access IBM" button when you turn the computer on. It should load up
>> properly and allow you to restore Windows.
> 
> 
> Don't quite get this: why do you need to use NTLDR?  Grub doesn't get
> in the way of accessing the recovery partition for me, I don't think.
> If you press the "Access IBM" button, it's pre-grub, pre-NTLDR.
> Maybe I'm missing something here though.
> 
> Honey

Yes, I recalled your saying this.  How, exactly, did you set up your 
system?  You seem to be doing something differently, or your system is a 
little different from the ones (including my G41) that will not boot 
into the recovery partition.

Peter

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