From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Mp87S-0005GA-Um for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:09:26 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mp87R-0005Eq-6O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:09:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mp87M-0005EN-Dm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:09:24 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53954 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mp87L-0005EK-W0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:09:20 -0400 Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.140]:42381) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mp87L-0000Ct-Iy for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:09:19 -0400 Received: from [82.69.40.219] (helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Mp87J-0006IO-UW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:09:18 +0000 Received: from cjwatson by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) for grub-devel@gnu.org id 1Mp87J-00037t-00; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:09:17 +0100 Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:09:17 +0100 From: Colin Watson To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090919220917.GE13423@riva.ucam.org> References: <20090914153537.GB25403@thorin> <20090919211049.GB16223@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090919211049.GB16223@thorin> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Originating-Smarthost01-IP: [82.69.40.219] X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive 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: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:09:25 -0000 On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > I'm sorry, but I really see very limited usefulness in this. It's only > potentially useful to expert users, but those should know how to backup > sectors in their disk already. Of course, like many restore facilities, it's only useful if you remembered or realised that you needed to do the backup before the data was overwritten ... It would be nice to have a straightforward answer to the sort of bug report that goes "argh, I installed Debian/Ubuntu and it ate the special magic boot loader I carefully installed there five years ago", I must admin. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]