Comment 5 for bug 19634

(In reply to comment #3)
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> partition and create a new windows NTFS partition there. So I think that this
> maybe is a bug in the IBM software. Maybe the partition layout is hard coded
> there somewhere.

I don't think so, I've done a little more testing on this as follows:

I restored the machine to factory settings, then resized the Windows partition
with Partition Magic, leaving about 25GB free space unallocated. I then tried to
reboot into my rescue partition and did so successfully.

I then installed Ubuntu Hoary on the unallocated space. After it installed grub
in the MBR and rebooted, the bug is reproduced exactly as above.

Hope this helps.

Matt