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

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:54:13 -0400


Harald Staub wrote:
> Hi Joe
> 
>>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.
> 
> Yes, since having added the hide/unhide stuff, I can successfully boot all
> my menu entries, including the recovery partition. Before that, I had a very
> ugly error I cannot remember exactly (blue screen or so).

It looks like you booted into Windows.  ;-)