[ltp] WARNING - Linux and ThinkVantage's Rescue & Recovery

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:54:41 +0100

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It's a real pain on a T60 with SATA disks, as if you boot from a
Windows CD it can't see the hard disk (I was trying to restore a
Windows partition).<br>
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After much grief I found the solution was to switch the controller to
'compatibility' mode in the bios, install windows, and then download
and install latest sata drivers from Lenovo. The sata drivers included
with Windows XP SP2 don't work with the T60 unless it's in
compatibility mode.<br>
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Interestingly Ubuntu boot had no problem at all. In fact a vanilla
Ubuntu 7.1 installed out of the box, and everything (including suspend
to ram) worked fine.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Phil<br>
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Tino Keitel wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 15:52:05 -0700, Baz wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">Attempted to install the 4.0 "update" of TV's Rescue and Recovery and it ate
GRUB leaving only the name at start-up.  A IBM/Lenovo tech told me, that
it's occured with other users.
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This sounds like the recovery partition overwrites existing partitions,
including your Linux partition with GRUB stage 2 (bad for people like
us), but forgets to restore a standard MBR boot sector (even worse),
leaving an unbootable system.

I saw this case once with a recovery CD for a Toshiba laptop ca. 8
years ago. Funny that now Lenovo fell into the same trap. I always
thought that IBM/Lenovo users don't need to bother with such stupid and
broken-by-design recovery procedures.

Reards,
Tino
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