Re: Scripting - write to HD support?

[Markus Laire]

On 10/6/06, Marco Gerards <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Alternative idea would be to create a partition (without any
> > filesystem) specifically for saving some data from grub, and then grub
> > would just give a read/write access to that partition as a single
> > block of data.
>
> I don't like this, it will make it hard or impossible to install GRUB
> on certain systems.

Maybe you misunderstood me a bit.
I didn't mean that grub would need to know which partition has this
"special" status. Instead grub would give a general read/write access
to any partition as a single block of data, and user would then use
the partition he wants.

e.g.
   # Read 1024 bytes from partition (hd0,3) starting at position 0
   data = read (hd0,3), 0, 1024;
   # Write new data to that same position
   write (hd0,3), 0, newdata;

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Markus Laire