[ltp] From Jiang: recoverying partition

[Jiang Qian]

Hi Joe:
Thanks for the advice. I'll try that. 

After I do that(presumably I will can use accessIBM button to get into 
recovery console), would I then boot straight to windows partition? How 
do I then boot to linux partition? I ask this because I have multiple 
linux kernels to boot with grub before. 

Do I need to reinstall Grub somewhere, say somewhere on my linux 
partition? Or I can boot using NTLDR into multiple linux partitions?

And pardon me for asking too much, what do I need to do beforehand in 
order to prepare if things goes wrong I can at least recover to my 
current working configuration, which is grub booting all? Do I need to 
dd something to save somewhere on my disk or I just need to reinstall 
grub? How do I reinstall grub from, say,ubuntu installation disk?

My final question is: anyone did this or somewhere on the internet I 
can read about, say dual booting using ntldr?

Thank you indeed.

Jiang

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:53:09AM -0400, jgidi@umd.umich.edu wrote:
> 
> If you have a Windows install CD handy, you can try starting up from it, 
> going
> into the Recovery Console, and running the "FIXMBR" and "FIXBOOT" commands.
> 
> Good luck.
> Joe
> 
> Quoting Jiang Qian <qian2@fas.harvard.edu>:
> 
> >Hi All:
> >I see an discussion about recovery partition. My question is this: as I
> >understand I have to use NTLDR as bootloader in order to boot to
> >recovery partition at all. Not knowing this I already installed grub on
> >MBR and can now only boot to BSOD when trying to boot to recovery
> >partition. Is there any way to non-destructively fix this, i.e. to put
> >NTLDR back to MBR to dual boot system? I have already had the recovery
> >cd. Is there a way to use recovery cd to restore NTLDR into MBR? Or any
> >other ways of getting back the option of recovering from hidden partion?
> >
> >My rationale of restoring recovery partition even when I have CDs is
> >the following: as pointed out restoring from recovery CDs one only have
> >the option of wiping out the whole disk yet restoring from recovery
> >partition one have the capability to restoring to first partition on
> >disk, which I kept windows.
> >
> >My rationale of having the option of no-destructively restoring windows
> >is windows is a good thing around for testing, knowing some problems
> >are hardware instead of software. Another significant reason is that my
> >wife use windows. If she mess up the windows part I want to be sure to
> >be able to fix the windows part without wiping out my linux
> >environment.
> >
> >Thanks a lot!
> >Jiang
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