From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1EudFy-0007xl-0f for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:06:50 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EudFx-0007wh-3F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:06:49 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EudFv-0007u2-Ez for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:06:48 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EudFv-0007tp-72 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:06:47 -0500 Received: from [213.165.64.21] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EudHY-0002vr-Ax for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:08:29 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Jan 2006 22:04:55 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-060-013-110.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO localhost) [84.60.13.110] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 05 Jan 2006 23:04:55 +0100 X-Authenticated: #733973 From: wobble@gmx.de To: grub-devel@gnu.org Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:04:55 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <87oe2qegd9.fsf@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <87oe2qegd9.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601052304.55469.wobble@gmx.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Feature request: MBR backup X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:06:49 -0000 Hello everyone, I'd like to propose a backup-mechanism for GRUB2. On installation the old MBR could easily be stored in the partition hosting the stage2. That would allow for a clean self-destruction of GRUB2 as it could simply overwrite its own MBR-data if required. I guess many people install grub to play a little with linux/fbsd/etc and afterwards have a messed-up MBR and they want their Windows back. Such a feature would prevent a lot of support-requests I believe. Cheers Jan