On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:26:01PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > 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.
I think making a backup is a fine idea, but I'd rather avoid the "option creep". It doesn't hurt to simply dump the files in /boot/grub/. If user later discovers that valuable data was overwritten, she can figure out how to call dd just as she can figure out the right parameters for grub-install. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
