after installing Ubuntu I can't access my rescue partition
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debian-installer |
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debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I received an IBM Thinkpad T43 laptop yesterday (see
https:/
Ubuntu hoary on it. Before installing Ubuntu it was possible to access the IBM
rescue partition and diagnostic utilities by pressing the blue Access IBM button
at the startup screen. During the Ubuntu install I resized the Windows ntfs
partition only (not the rescue partition). The installer added both the Windows
partition and the rescue partition as Grub entries, the former as Windows XP and
the latter as Windows 2000.
The problem is this: when I press the blue Access IBM button at the startup
screen, it does not boot into the rescue partition, instead it simply gives me
the option to access the BIOS or boot normally. When I attempt to boot into the
rescue partition from the Grub entry, I get a BSOD which I have copied into
here: https:/
My partition table is:
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1909 15334011 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4346 4864 4165560 12 Compaq diagnostics
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 1910 4242 18739822+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 4243 4345 827347+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4243 4345 827316 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Hope this helps. Fortunately I have made rescue disks which I hope work, so I
_should_ be able to test this again. For any more information, just ask :)
Matt
Changed in debian-installer: | |
assignee: | kamion → nobody |
Changed in debian-installer: | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
Changed in libdebian-installer (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Incomplete |
Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
Changed in libdebian-installer (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
no longer affects: | libdebian-installer (Ubuntu) |
Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
I resized manually with parted from hoary live cd, and can confirm this behaviour.
However, fdisk does not give any warnings about the partition table as above