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From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:35:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1260761730.12157.342.camel@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B25B005.20206@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org>

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 11:24 +0800, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> hmm....
> bootloader installation is often done by distro install-CDs.
> 
> Will the distro be smart enough to save these backups to the disk 
> somewhere sensible, rather than to the temporary in-memory
> filesystem? 

The backup files will (normally) be stored in /boot/grub/ together with
grub.cfg and core.img. I assume it is not in memory. No?

Thanks,
-yi




  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-14  3:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-11  9:26 [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation Zhu Yi
2009-12-11  9:39 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-12-11 22:23   ` Carles Pina i Estany
2009-12-14  2:48   ` Zhu Yi
2009-12-14  2:58     ` Isaac Dupree
2009-12-14  3:32       ` Zhu Yi
2009-12-14  2:59     ` kashyap garimella
2009-12-14  3:08       ` richardvoigt
2009-12-14  3:24         ` Isaac Dupree
2009-12-14  3:35           ` Zhu Yi [this message]
2009-12-14  3:52             ` Isaac Dupree
2009-12-14  3:15       ` Zhu Yi
2009-12-24 21:21 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-28  6:55   ` Zhu Yi
2009-12-28 22:04     ` Isaac Dupree
2009-12-29  3:21       ` Zhu Yi
2009-12-29  3:59         ` richardvoigt
2009-12-29  7:21           ` Zhu Yi
2010-01-07 19:15             ` rmh

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