From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NK1Yj-00020X-E2 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:25:17 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NK1Yh-0001zF-Ex for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:25:15 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NK1Yc-0001tL-If for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:25:14 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59062 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NK1Yc-0001t2-Ae for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:25:10 -0500 Received: from norbert.marlboro.edu ([206.192.68.80]:48163) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NK1Yc-0004fx-9Y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:25:10 -0500 Received: from akbar.marlboro.edu (akbar.marlboro.edu [10.1.2.5]) by norbert.marlboro.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF1BD14DC; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:24:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from xyz.marlboro.edu (xyz.marlboro.edu [10.1.2.29]) by akbar.marlboro.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81CC11E6F2; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:24:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.1.4.38] (mdhcp38.marlboro.edu [10.1.4.38]) by xyz.marlboro.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539C43AC029; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:24:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B25B005.20206@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:24:53 -0500 From: Isaac Dupree User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <1260523561-19086-1-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> <1260524367.2832.10.camel@fz.local> <1260758922.12157.281.camel@debian> <2e59e6970912131908sd8e23bbu7caaaadbbd3815bd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2e59e6970912131908sd8e23bbu7caaaadbbd3815bd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Marlboro-MailScanner-Information: Please contact techsupport@marlboro.edu for more information X-Marlboro-MailScanner: Found to be clean, clean X-Marlboro-Information: Please contact techsupport@marlboro.edu for more information X-Marlboro-MailScanner-ID: 4EF1BD14DC.A69A9 X-Marlboro-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.799, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_50 0.00) X-Marlboro-MailScanner-From: ml@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org X-Marlboro-MailScanner-Watermark: 1261365898.5296@kWErE5RuGicvqT3Qpo7Ejw X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:25:16 -0000 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!