Comments on: Ubuntu 8.10 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T400

By: heron

heron — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:18:01 +0000

Just now I tried installing Unbuntu 8.10 in my T400. Unfortunately, the grub installed in the MBR without any prompt… I can not use ThindVantage now… Is there any methods to recover the MBR to the original status? I am really disappointed. Why did Grub install in MBR without my permission…

Thanks!

By: heron

heron — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:13:13 +0000

OK. Thanks! I am a new user of T400 and Ubuntu. So I guess I should keep the recovery. After surf internet, I think I can install Grub in /boot with a extended partition and use Vista bootloader.

By: afty

afty — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:13:26 +0000

I deleted the Lenovo recovery partition after I burned the recovery discs. I figured I didn’t need it anymore and could recover the disk space. I think if I were to do it again, I wouldn’t worry about the Thinkvantage button and just install GRUB on the MBR.

By: heron

heron — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:04:52 +0000

It seems you need to set the /boot partition to be primary. However, Lenovo has set up three primary partitions (One is for Vista, two for its own purpose). How can you do that because the maximal primary partition is three? Thanks!