Difference between revisions of "Installation instructions for the ThinkPad G41"
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I initially booted the machine and the installed Access IBM software (I presume) converted the primary FAT32 to NTFS. I downloaded a [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo] LiveCD and a [http://www.sysresccd.org/ System Rescue CD] (known to have ntfsresize). | I initially booted the machine and the installed Access IBM software (I presume) converted the primary FAT32 to NTFS. I downloaded a [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo] LiveCD and a [http://www.sysresccd.org/ System Rescue CD] (known to have ntfsresize). | ||
| − | In my scouting around on the net, I read that the Thinkpads have a have a Rescue and Recovery partition which must be the 4th entry in the partition table. It occupies the final 4Gb of the drive as a primary partition. Using the System Rescue CD, I resized the partition on my 80 Gb drive to 30Gb. The space made available between the end of the resized NTFS partition (/dev/hda1) and the Rescue and Recovery partition (/dev/hda4) was split into a primary partition to act as a boot partition (/dev/hda2), and an extended partition (/dev/hda3). The extended partition was further subdivided into a 2Gb swap partition (/dev/hda5) and all of the remaining space as a root partition for Linux. N.B. If you are using fdisk, rather than the excellent QTParted (accessed as run_qtparted from the System Rescue CD), you will have to fix the order of the partition table entries using the | + | In my scouting around on the net, I read that the Thinkpads have a have a Rescue and Recovery partition which must be the 4th entry in the partition table. It occupies the final 4Gb of the drive as a primary partition. Using the System Rescue CD, I resized the partition on my 80 Gb drive to 30Gb. The space made available between the end of the resized NTFS partition (/dev/hda1) and the Rescue and Recovery partition (/dev/hda4) was split into a primary partition to act as a boot partition (/dev/hda2), and an extended partition (/dev/hda3). The extended partition was further subdivided into a 2Gb swap partition (/dev/hda5) and all of the remaining space as a root partition for Linux. N.B. If you are using ''fdisk'', rather than the excellent ''QTParted'' (accessed as ''run_qtparted'' from the System Rescue CD), you will have to fix the order of the partition table entries using the |
x extra functionality (experts only) | x extra functionality (experts only) | ||
entry on the first fdisk menu, then the | entry on the first fdisk menu, then the | ||
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/dev/hda5 4073 4343 2048728+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris | /dev/hda5 4073 4343 2048728+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris | ||
/dev/hda6 4344 9794 41209528+ 83 Linux | /dev/hda6 4344 9794 41209528+ 83 Linux | ||
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| + | After the initial Gentoo installation using ''grub'', I was able to boot Gentoo and XP. XP complained on booting, but was able to sort itself out. I think that ''fdisk'' may affect the MBR in a slightly different way from QTParted. When setting up grub, I provided an entry for the R&R partition, like so: | ||
| + | # For booting the IBM Rescue & Recovery partition | ||
| + | title=Access IBM | ||
| + | rootnoverify (hd0,3) | ||
| + | chainloader +1 | ||
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| + | However, when I try to boot that partition, I am told there is no operating system, so it apparently does not have a bootstrap in the usual place. I have asked IBM about this, but have yet to receive a reply. | ||
Revision as of 07:49, 29 March 2005
What I've done so far:
I initially booted the machine and the installed Access IBM software (I presume) converted the primary FAT32 to NTFS. I downloaded a Gentoo LiveCD and a System Rescue CD (known to have ntfsresize).
In my scouting around on the net, I read that the Thinkpads have a have a Rescue and Recovery partition which must be the 4th entry in the partition table. It occupies the final 4Gb of the drive as a primary partition. Using the System Rescue CD, I resized the partition on my 80 Gb drive to 30Gb. The space made available between the end of the resized NTFS partition (/dev/hda1) and the Rescue and Recovery partition (/dev/hda4) was split into a primary partition to act as a boot partition (/dev/hda2), and an extended partition (/dev/hda3). The extended partition was further subdivided into a 2Gb swap partition (/dev/hda5) and all of the remaining space as a root partition for Linux. N.B. If you are using fdisk, rather than the excellent QTParted (accessed as run_qtparted from the System Rescue CD), you will have to fix the order of the partition table entries using the
x extra functionality (experts only)
entry on the first fdisk menu, then the
f fix partition order
entry on the expert menu, after you have created the new linux partitions. The end result looks like this:
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10337 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 4058 30678448+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 4059 4072 105840 83 Linux /dev/hda3 4073 9794 43258320 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda4 9795 10337 4105080 12 Compaq diagnostics /dev/hda5 4073 4343 2048728+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 4344 9794 41209528+ 83 Linux
After the initial Gentoo installation using grub, I was able to boot Gentoo and XP. XP complained on booting, but was able to sort itself out. I think that fdisk may affect the MBR in a slightly different way from QTParted. When setting up grub, I provided an entry for the R&R partition, like so:
# For booting the IBM Rescue & Recovery partition title=Access IBM rootnoverify (hd0,3) chainloader +1
However, when I try to boot that partition, I am told there is no operating system, so it apparently does not have a bootstrap in the usual place. I have asked IBM about this, but have yet to receive a reply.
