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

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Harald,

Have you tested actually booting the recovery partition from GRUB? When I
installed Ubuntu, it automatically generated a GRUB entry for the recovery
partition, but trying to actually boot it resulted in an error.

Best,
Joe

Quoting Harald Staub <staub@switch.ch>:

> Hello
>
> (I am sorry about my breaking the threading - I am not subscribed).
>
> I read about problems about the recovery partition and grub. I have a setup
> that might help somebody. I do not have a working "Access IBM"-button, but I
> can choose the recovery partition from the grub menu. This is on a T42 with
> Ubuntu Hoary.
>
> My partitioning:
> - primary partition with XP
> - extended partitions with Ubuntu
> - primary partition with recovery partition
>
> In menu.lst, if I remember correctly, I just had to add the titles and the
> hide/unhide you see below:
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
> # on /dev/hda1
> title           Microsoft Windows XP Professional
> hide            (hd0,1)
> root            (hd0,0)
> savedefault
> chainloader     +1
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
> # on /dev/hda2
> title           Access IBM
> unhide          (hd0,1)
> root            (hd0,1)
> savedefault
> chainloader     +1
>
> BTW, both of these partitions are as delivered by IBM, no reinstallations.
> To get there, my absolute first boot was from a live CD (Ubuntu) from where
> I could shrink (using parted) the first partition. And, if you prefer fat32
> over ntfs like me (for easy rw-mounting from linux), you take the following
> files away from XP before its first boot: convert.exe and autoconv.exe, in
> /windows/system32/ and in /i386/.
>
> HTH
> Harry
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