From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:21:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091224212119.GI12122@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260523561-19086-1-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com>
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:26:01PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> 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.
I think making a backup is a fine idea, but I'd rather avoid the "option
creep". It doesn't hurt to simply dump the files in /boot/grub/. If user
later discovers that valuable data was overwritten, she can figure out
how to call dd just as she can figure out the right parameters for
grub-install.
--
Robert Millan
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-24 21:21 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
2009-12-14 3:52 ` Isaac Dupree
2009-12-14 3:15 ` Zhu Yi
2009-12-24 21:21 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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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