On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:35:45PM +0530, kashyap garimella wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > I have added the following new features: > > > > 1) when grub-setup runs, it automatically stores the areas of (mbr + > embed) > > region, which are overwritten, into the file (in the following specified > > format) in root directory. > > > > 2) grub-setup can restore the stored mbr in the following format back to > > destination drive: > > Thanks for your interest, but I really think this is overkill. Users would > still need dd(1) to restore those images, so if they know dd(1), why can't > they just use that to back them up in first place? > Sir, I also added a restore option (grub-setup --restore dest_drive). A dd needs to be done explicitly. But with this patch, it will (by default) store the mbr and the areas in embed region ( which are written by grub ). And with the backup file, you can restore from a live cd also. The backup file contains the start sector and the length of the core image. There is also a request for this feature http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27058 Thank you, garimella kashyap -- > Robert Millan > > The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and > how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we > still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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