Isn't this as simple as: grub-install /dev/sda dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda1 bs=512 count=1 followed by restoring DOS MBR... ?
Cheers! ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrey Borzenkov Sent: 12/16/13 02:36 PM To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: [RFC] Allow separate boot block and core.img location? There are many users using dual boot with Windows and Linux. In this configuration installing grub in MBR unfortunately breaks at least some updates of Windows 8 (update fails). And installing grub in partition has all sort of known problems with blocklists. What about allowing separate locations for boot block and core.img? I.e. something like grub-install --boot-block-location=/dev/sda1 --core-img-location=/dev/sda This has all advantages of embedding core.img while allowing leaving MBR alone. Actually we could assume default --core-img-location, meaning that for grub-install --boot-block-location=/dev/sda1 we assume that core.img has to be embedded in /dev/sda unless proved otherwise :) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
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