On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:56:47PM -0500, Scot Jenkins wrote: > Jim Crumley wrote: > > Well, things have definitely changed for the R40. The hidden > > partition boots by pressing the "Access IBM" button, instead of > > F11. My hidden partition is bigger and doesn't show up on the > > partition table from cfdisk: > > > > Name Flags Part Type FS Type Size (MB) > > hda1 Boot Primary NTFS 36841.52 > > Free Space 3166.25 > > > > try 'fdisk /dev/hda' then 'p' to print the partition table. there must > be some type on that partition and perhaps cfdisk doesn't recognize it. > or you could try 'sfdisk -l /dev/hda' (that is a lowercase L for list). None of those list any partition in the IBM recovery space. I have looked around a little more online and it seems like the consensus is that the data is written to the disk without any partitioning [1]. So I will just leave it there for now. If I ever get tight on disk space, I'll blow it away and call IBM for a recovery CD. 1. http://www.w-m-p.com/linux-on-t40.html#read%20this%20before%20you%20switch%20on%20your%20new%20t40 -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list