[ltp] "debian update-grub script" and thinkpad hidden recovery

[Jiang Qian]

Sorry I did not add the necessary qualification. Do not install it on 
MBR on T43, which as rescue and recovery version 3.0. See:
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rescue_and_Recovery
I suspect on newer thinkpad you need to be careful.
Jiang
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:31:23PM -0400, anjin wrote:
> Jiang Qian wrote:
> 
> >One word of advice: you certainly do NOT want to install linux 
> >bootloader, grub or lilo, in MBR. I did that and as far as I know 
> >there's no known way to boot back to recovery partition. Install on the 
> >boot record of the linux partition and use windows bootloader to boot 
> >linux.
> >Jiang
> > 
> >
> I hope I haven't missed something further up the thread and am 
> introducing something irrelevant but I have just installed Slackware 
> 10.2 on an R51 (type1836-XXU) and put lilo in the MBR without any issues 
> at all.  I can mount and read the XP and the recovery partitions without 
> any hiccups from SLack, and the machine will boot to both XP or the IBM 
> partition without a problem.
> My 2 cents.
> Cheers
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