Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

[Isaac Dupree <ml@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org>]

richardvoigt@gmail.com wrote:
> An automatic backup is valuable both for savvy users who know how but
> forgot, and for those who will find the backup and restore procedures
> online only after their computer is bricked.

hmm....
bootloader installation is often done by distro install-CDs.

Will the distro be smart enough to save these backups to the disk 
somewhere sensible, rather than to the temporary in-memory filesystem?

I'm... Just being paranoid enough to ask this question -- I never quite 
trust by install CDs not to install a bootloader, because I have to find 
the right place in the GUI install sequence to disable doing so (and 
hope that disabling works -- as a supposedly "advanced" option, 
sometimes it's not been tested enough).  Anything GRUB2 upstream can do 
to make this less risky will make me happy!