[ltp] T42 Success in Booting Rescue and Recovery after GRUB Install!

[Marcus Hagn]

Hi,
thanks, it works great on my X40. I have the following lines in my
Grub config file:

title           IBM Rescue & Recovery
root            (hd0,1)
parttype        (hd0,1) 0x0b
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1

title           Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root            (hd0,0)
parttype        (hd0,1) 0x12
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1

This lets me boot into XP as well as into the Recovery partition from
the grub menu.

Regards
Marcus


On 10/19/05, Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@b4net.lt> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 04:33:26PM -0400, Jiang Qian wrote:
> > For those of you out there who had the same problem of booting T43
> > rescue&recovery partition after installing GRUB in MBR, my success
> > might be of use:
> > Sympton: After installing GRUB in MBR and booting the rescue and
> > recovery parition, one arrives a blue screen.
>
> I had the same problem.
>
> > Solution: Apparently this is due to wrong assignment of partition id by
> > fdisk or something like that.
>
> I think it is just so that the partition is hidden from the normal
> Windows installation and doesn't show up as a disk drive.  The default
> ThinkPad MBR probably changes it to FAT if you press Access IBM during
> startup, and then changes it back to the hidden ID on next boot.
>
> > After reading this
> > http://sharadware.com/2005/07/11/suse-linux-winxp-access-ibm-on-the-thi=
nkpad-t43/#comment-165
> > by checking here:
> > http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rescue_and_Recovery
> > I changed the ID(partition type) of my rescue and recovery
> > partition(for my computer /dev/sda2) from Compaq diagnostics(12) to WIN
> > 95 Fat 32(b). And now I boot into rescue and recovery fine!
>
> Thank you!  This works on my T42 as well.
>
> By the way, you can ask GRUB to change the partition type for you, so
> you could have a GRUB menu entry that sets the recovery partition type
> to 0x0b (FAT32) then boots it, and another GRUB menu entry that sets the
> partition type back to 0x12 and boots Windows -- so that the recovery
> partition wouldn't be visible as a drive in Windows, and you wouldn't
> break it accidentally.
>
> > Hope this can help people out there.
>
> Yep, thanks again!
>
> Marius Gedminas
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