[mdlug] T61 Thinkpad Recovery Partition

[Jesse J. Salens]

Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2008 1:48 PM, Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net> wrote:
>   
>>         Okay, I partitioned it with fdisk, using all available sectors. ie the
>> last partition; /home or sda9 used up whatever was left. With fdisk v I
>> found out there are still 5475 unallocated sectors. 12'161 were
>> allocated to partitions sda1-9. The install still only reports 93GB
>> available. Am I on the right track with GRUB?
>>     
>
> There is an option in many laptop BIOS to disable the hidden recovery
> space made unavailable by certain implementations.  Look around.  I
> think that is the answer to your question...
>   

I had a Z60m model and there was definitely an option to disabled the 
recovery partition in the bios. I don't remember the exact steps, but 
this is likely where you need to look prior to partitioning.

Jesse