From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:35:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090914153537.GB25403@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c202cdf80909120705u58aff93x7215a2eb5252b044@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:35:45PM +0530, kashyap garimella wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I have added the following new features:
>
> 1) when grub-setup runs, it automatically stores the areas of (mbr + embed)
> region, which are overwritten, into the file (in the following specified
> format) in root directory.
>
> 2) grub-setup can restore the stored mbr in the following format back to
> destination drive:
Thanks for your interest, but I really think this is overkill. Users would
still need dd(1) to restore those images, so if they know dd(1), why can't
they just use that to back them up in first place?
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-14 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-12 14:05 [PATCH]: Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive kashyap garimella
2009-09-14 15:35 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-09-14 15:44 ` kashyap garimella
2009-09-19 21:10 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-19 22:09 ` Colin Watson
2009-09-20 6:50 ` richardvoigt
2009-09-20 11:22 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-23 8:08 ` Mikko Rantalainen
2009-09-24 15:45 ` kashyap garimella
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