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From: | Isaac Dupree |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation |
Date: | Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:52:52 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) |
Zhu Yi wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 11:24 +0800, Isaac Dupree wrote: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?The backup files will (normally) be stored in /boot/grub/ together with grub.cfg and core.img.
if it's there, then excellent, you are right. After all, /boot/grub needs to be permanently on the disk in order for the installed bootloader to work, also :-)
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