Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

[Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat>]

Hi,

On Dec/11/2009, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> 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 <yi.zhu@intel.com>
> 
> 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

I like the idea, and I think that as Colin pointed it out it can be
useful.
I haven't watched to any of the implementations.

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