Re: Protection of boot sector and embedded area

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 09:28:12AM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Is there a setting for grub-install/grub-setup where, if set, will
> never actually over write the boot sector and embedded area of my HD?
> I don't mind grub.conf being written to, I just do not want the boot
> up executables written to.
> For example, if I have an Ubuntu install, and the grub package gets
> upgraded, is there a way to stop the automatic update from attacking
> the boot and embedded area of my HD?

At the moment, this is a recipe for GRUB becoming unusable, as the
interface between the core image and grub.cfg is not yet stable. As
such, I expect that the Ubuntu package will be changing to make this
harder to do by accident.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden