Re: Thinkpad A31p recovery Partition
"Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 10:23, Kit Mitchell wrote: > Given that it has no floppy (just a cd) I was unable > to create a rescue floppy and so far haven't found > a recovery cd that is downloadable. Any clues would > be appreciated before I have to go crying to IBM for > a probably unsupported fix. If it's like the T30 then you can burn a bootable CD with the recovery floppy image on it and it will happily boot from it. Note that you will need a Windows box with a floppy to run LOADDSKF.EXE, which you can either extract from the recovery partition or download (Google will find you lots of copies of it). However, I haven't tried using the recovery image on a machine with only FreeBSD on it; when I ran it on an XP-installed T30 it modified BOOT.INI to boot from the recovery partition. Also, IBM seems to be good at changing things incompatibly so it's possible that this won't work on the A31p. :( -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [email protected] system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"