Bmgr clean, Bmgr, Clean – Lenovo ThinkPad R50p User Manual

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v

Prev

Active

Part

Displays

the

partition

table

index

of

the

previously

active

partition

when

booted

to

the

service

area.

v

Boot

State

Determines

the

current

state

of

the

machine:

0

Boot

normal

to

operating

system.

1

Boot

to

the

service

operating

system

2

Boot

back

to

the

normal

operating

system

from

the

service

operating

system.

v

Alt

Boot

Flag

Boot

to

alternate

operating

system;

DOS

for

example.

v

Previous

Partition

type

Displays

the

partition

type

that

the

service

partition

was

set

to

prior

to

booting

to

it,

when

booted

to

the

service

area.

v

Prior

IBM

MBR

Index

Used

by

installer.

v

Patch

IN:

OUT

Input

and

output

values

from

the

patch

code

if

used.

v

F11

Msg

Message

to

display

to

user

if

proper

BIOS

calls

not

supported.

The

following

table

provides

error

codes

and

error

descriptions

for

BMGR32:

Table

30.

BMGR32

Error

codes

Error

code

Error

Description

5

Error

applying

selected

options

to

master

boot

record.

6

Error

installing

the

master

boot

record.

7

Error

uninstalling

the

master

boot

record.

10

Error

setting

system

type.

11

Error

setting

the

master

boot

record

mode.

13

Error

installing

compatibility

patch.

14

Error

setting

compatibility

patch

parameters.

96

Error

accessing

sectors.

97

Error

accessing

sectors.

BMGR

CLEAN

CleanMBR

cleans

the

Master

Boot

Record.

This

program

can

be

used

when

you

encounter

a

Rescue

and

Recovery

installation

failure,

such

as

not

being

able

to

install

Rescue

and

Recovery

with

less

than

the

required

sectors

free

for

the

boot

manager

to

install.

Notes:

1.

After

running

this

tool,

the

applications

that

are

using

MBR

will

be

useless.

For

example:

SafeGuard

Easy,

SafeBoot,

and

MBR

version

of

Computrace.

2.

Run

before

installing

Rescue

and

Recovery.

3.

Use

the

cleanmbr.exe

for

DOS

and

the

cleanmbr32.exe

for

Windows.

4.

After

running

DOS

CleanMBR,

run

FDISK

/MBR;

it

will

put

on

the

MBR.

96

Rescue

and

Recovery

4.2

Deployment

Guide

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