On 2/5/07, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Evidently something didn't 'take', but instead of spending the rest of > the day goofing around with it, I thought I'd ask first... >
Ask what? > (Typing with nine fingers... the doc put me in a splint to see if my > broken finger will repair itself. Hmmmph.) At your age? Amazing it didn't break off and fall to dust like in The Mummy. > Then I set this up with a copy of XP that I want to put on another > machine. So I dug out the rescue disks for this Thinkpad, run the > installer for the rescue disks, and I expect it to do what it says it's > going to do - (1) format the hard disk, (2) install the rescue routines > in a hidden partition, and (3) install XP from the rescue partition. So what you want to do is blow away everything you've set up? Why? I'd boot up with a knoppix disk, run QTParted and remove all the partitions. Then try the rescue disks again. > Note that this Thinkpad came with XP, but I blew it away and formatted > the entire disk. Well, there's your first mistake. My advice on your next TP: shrink the partition to a more reasonable size, make a copy of it with partimage (as a backup) and then install FC6. No need to blow away the XP partition, and that way you retain any special drivers that came with the machine. > Everything 'appears' to work, but upon startup, nothing has changed. My > grub menu with FC and the old install of XP are still there, and > pressing F11 to use the recovery files doesn't work. The machine beeps > until I let go, then my grub menu displays. Weird. I'd guess the recovery software is looking for a default partition table and when it doesn't find one it bails, but doesn't bother to tell you. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
