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Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation
From: |
Carles Pina i Estany |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:23:12 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Hi,
On Dec/11/2009, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 11.12.2009, 17:26 +0800 schrieb Zhu Yi:
> > Add a feature to backup the old boot sectors before overwritting
> > them with grub2 boot and core images. Users can later recover the
> > previous boot sectors with grub-install --recover option.
> >
> > P.S. I found this might be a useful feature after I overwrote my
> > second PGP encrypted hard disk (Windows XP installed) boot sectors
> > by grub2 by mistake.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <address@hidden>
>
> Someone already made a patch for this inside grub-setup
> See here and also for the discussion of it:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-09/msg00242.html
I like the idea, and I think that as Colin pointed it out it can be
useful.
I haven't watched to any of the implementations.
--
Carles Pina i Estany
http://pinux.info
- [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation, Zhu Yi, 2009/12/11
- Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation, Felix Zielcke, 2009/12/11
- Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation,
Carles Pina i Estany <=
- Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation, Zhu Yi, 2009/12/13
- Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation, kashyap garimella, 2009/12/13
- Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation, address@hidden, 2009/12/13
- Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation, Isaac Dupree, 2009/12/13
- Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation, Zhu Yi, 2009/12/13
- Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation, Isaac Dupree, 2009/12/13
- Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation, Zhu Yi, 2009/12/13
Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation, Robert Millan, 2009/12/24