Re: boot.img Fix

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:30:01AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
>
>> I agree GRUB should be very careful not to destroy potentially valuable
>> data.  However, that's not to say FAT install is important.  Typically
>> our install doesn't collide or interfere with any filesystem, it's only
>> a few corner cases that do, and IMO we should try to discourage those.
>>
>> But of course, destroying someone's filesystem is not the right way to
>> discourage something :-)
>
> I think installing to the first (or any) sector of a filesystem not  
> known specifically to allow that should at least require --force.

Agreed.

-- 
Robert Millan

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