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

Paul Bolle linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:04:14 +0200


On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 16:08 +0200, Marcus Hagn wrote:
> 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.

Assuming you have installed GRUB into the MBR: does this also allow you
to activate Rescue and Recovery by pressing the Acces IBM (or probably
ThinkVantage) button at system boot?


Paul