[OT] Booting into IBM Rescue and Recovery

[Aroon Pahwa]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:08:14 +0100, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
> 

i called them last night and i had to end up purchasing a rescue and
recovery cd that will boot me into the partition for 45 dollars.  45
dollars!  im slightly annoyed.  but oh well, this means i can mess
things up as much as i want from  now on =]

aroon pahwa
viperstyx at gmail.com