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From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: MBR backup
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:30:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xtue29v.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601052304.55469.wobble@gmx.de> (wobble@gmx.de's message of "Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:04:55 +0000")

wobble@gmx.de writes:

Hi,

> I'd like to propose a backup-mechanism for GRUB2. 
> On installation the old MBR could easily be stored in the partition hosting 
> the stage2. 
> That would allow for a clean self-destruction of GRUB2 as it could simply 
> overwrite its own MBR-data if required. 
>
> I guess many people install grub to play a little with linux/fbsd/etc and 
> afterwards have a messed-up MBR and they want their Windows back. Such a 
> feature would prevent a lot of support-requests I believe.

You are right, it might be a nice feature to add.  I think it would be
quite easy to add an uninstall feature that does just this.  I'll add
it to the todo list on the wiki.

Thanks,
Marco




      reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-05 17:25 The menu and scripting Marco Gerards
2006-01-05 23:04 ` Feature request: MBR backup wobble
2006-01-05 22:30   ` Marco Gerards [this message]

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