From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ1yM-0007pb-7S for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:39:38 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ1yJ-0007nu-JK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:39:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ1yE-0007j0-LH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:39:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56517 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ1yE-0007ii-DM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:39:30 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:62829) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJ1yE-0002QM-4y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:39:30 -0500 Received: from [85.180.21.41] (e180021041.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.21.41]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lpis6-1NxIjp3DIU-00fZqF; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:39:27 +0100 From: Felix Zielcke To: The development of GNU GRUB In-Reply-To: <1260523561-19086-1-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> References: <1260523561-19086-1-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:39:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1260524367.2832.10.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.29.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/km7MRn+Tr6P/L+HiHcHA7nTOKFqvxtUpG3BA K5p957Iwg2ufi0IoE86tkAk+sOvknnwtrpJTk0/os3ca5xs8gC cojlmtzyk+Cy0dwjJi2ow== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:39:35 -0000 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 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 -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer