Hi,

I am currently setting up an ACER Travelmate 5730 Laptop with Fedora 9,
in addition to the existing Windows Vista.

This computer came with a recovery partition located in /dev/sda1
(partition type 0x27).

I now installed the Linux /boot-Partition in /dev/sda1 (I have my
recovery on DVD, that's enough), left the installed Windows in
/dev/sda2, and /dev/sda3 contains a big Volume Group for all remaining
Linux partitions.

What I experience is following: During system boot, the partition type
of /dev/sda1 is always returned to 0x27 - independent of what system I
boot or of the boot device (hard disk or DVD). I assume that the ACER
Bios, or the installed MBR boot strapper, patches the partition table to
always hide the assumed recovery partition.

Has anyone experience with installing Linux on pre-configured ACER
Notebooks and knows advice to make the first partition table entry
usable again?

Greetings,
Joerg