Hi !, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM, James Courtier-Dutton < james.dut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/22 Lars Nooden <lars.cura...@gmail.com>: > > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > >> I think this would be a good feature, because if nothing else, I > >> permits the user to "uninstall grub" if they so wish. > > > > I would disagree with the use case described, but agree that having the > > ability to roll back to the previous boot record could possibly be of > > value. > > > > -Lars > > > > So, if one did a dd backup of the boot sector and the embedded area > before the first partition, is there a tool that can replace those > sectors but do it safely. E.g. Only replace the number of sectors that > fit before the first partition, and preserve the current partition > table, and not use the partition table from the dd backup. > > There is already a thread discussing this topic. http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg12829.html The patch saves the exact places in embed region, which are overwritten. And it restores the mbr+embed region safely. -Kashyap Garimella Jagannadh (irc:garimella) Undergraduate Student, IIT Madras, India > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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