Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> writes: > Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of > the master boot record [...] This breaks the design of the backup > software that my employer uses. This backup software backs up the > master boot record and all partitions; but since the extra sectors > used by grub-legacy and grub-pc are outside the master boot record and > are not part of any partition, they don't get backed up. > Consequently, if we have a hard drive failure and restore from a > backup, we have an unbootable machine. Lilo uses only the master boot > record. A lilo-booted machine can be backed up and restored with our > existing backup software just fine.
You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on this. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3wl1wbv....@tac.ki.iif.hu
