On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:39:26AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>I see in some searches that some places have contacted at +mbr@chiark,
>while the web page there suggests neilt+www@chiark...
>
>It is entirely possible that the chiark page has been forgotten and the
>email no longer works of cou
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 09:58:42AM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> I think this bug can be fixed, at least on the standard version of mbr (not
> on the Y2K version, but machines needing that won't run Windows7 or later
> anyway). The problem is that the changes needed point to an upstream
Hi!
I think this bug can be fixed, at least on the standard version of mbr (not
on the Y2K version, but machines needing that won't run Windows7 or later
anyway). The problem is that the changes needed point to an upstream
change, that's why I tried to contact Neil, the upstream author, but faili
install-mbr's code currently uses bytes 442 to 445 to store the version
of mbr's data structure (currently 2) and the signature.
So to change this would change the data structure format in a totally
non backwards compatible way (so older install-mbr versions would no
longer recognize this as an in
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