Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 11.12.2009, 17:26 +0800 schrieb Zhu Yi:
> 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.
>     
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <address@hidden>

Someone already made a patch for this inside grub-setup
See here and also for the discussion of it:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-09/msg00242.html


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Felix Zielcke
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