[mdlug] T61 Thinkpad Recovery Partition

[Peter Bart]

On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 18:10 -0500, Michael Rudas wrote:
> --- Peter Bart wrote:
> 
> > >       The expert option still has the same results, missing 7GB.
> > > Same with any other OS.  I'm trying  to use fdisk to partition it now.
> >         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?
> 
> Have you tried blowing away the boot sector?  I use MBRWiz:
> <http://www.mbrwizard.com> -- it can be used with a DOS boot-disk or
> Linux.

	Okay, I'm not really sure how I did it but something happened. I was
not able to get a working DOS/Win boot disk to get MBRWiz working. I
found a bootable iso called "supergrubdisk" which promised to unhide any
hidden partitions. I'm not really sure it did that but I do think what
it did was to properly flag/label the partitions. Story of my life. All
of a sudden I'm booting off the hard disk into my last failed install. I
did also find a Parted Magic live cd that among other things had GParted
on it. With that I partitioned the disk according to what I wanted.
(/, /boot, /usr, swap, /var, /tmp, /opt and /home). So with the two of
them reformated and checked my hard disk, which according to fdisk still
has 5475 unallocated sectors. I do think Ray was right as well because
gparted reports 100GB/93.16GIB. It is now working, I must sort out the
vagaries of suspend and transfer most of my home directory and my dot
files. Sadly I don't know exactly what I did, but it started working
after I ran the supergrubdisk.
	Thank you all for your help and advice.

Best Regards,
-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net