From: Lars Nooden <lars.curator@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:43:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB928C9.3070907@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad2655cb0909221222x4db1897fgfa6bb8dace6d74@mail.gmail.com>
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> So, if one did a dd backup of the boot sector and the embedded area
> before the first partition, is there a tool that can replace those
> sectors but do it safely. E.g. Only replace the number of sectors that
> fit before the first partition, and preserve the current partition
> table, and not use the partition table from the dd backup.
dd plus as shell script fit nicely in busybox
-Lars
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-22 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 18:57 Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive James Courtier-Dutton
2009-09-22 19:04 ` Lars Nooden
2009-09-22 19:22 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-09-22 19:43 ` Lars Nooden [this message]
2009-09-23 2:08 ` kashyap garimella
2009-09-24 12:17 ` Robert Millan
2009-09-24 12:06 ` Robert Millan
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