[OT] Booting into IBM Rescue and Recovery

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 03:05 -0400, Aroon Pahwa wrote:

> i have an X40.  i used to be able to do that before i installed
> Ubuntu.  I never tried until now to get back in.  I went to read all
> over the IBM website and i read somewhere that tools that make changes
> to the MBR can disable the rescue and recovery system somehow.  i
> rememered then that during the Ubuntu installed when it was formating
> my partition to ext3 it asked me about installing grub to the MBR or
> something like that.  i said ok.  which im pretty sure is what messed
> things up.

Yeah. The X40s use a different form of rescue and recovery, and you need
the original MBR to be able to access it properly. I was never able to
figure out how to rectify this - your best bet is managing to get a copy
of the MBR out of IBM.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org