2009/9/26 Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com>: > 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. > I suppose I have a special case. My HD already has a custom boot sector and embedded area doing something else. So I cannot install grub there at all. I am currently installing grub onto a usb stick and booting Linux from the usb stick, with the usb stick just doing the grub bit for me. I want to make sure that if I do automatic upgrades in ubuntu, it will never accidentally wipe the custom boot sector and embedded areas of my HD. I will manually do grub-install to update the grub on my usb stick.
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