>>>>> Jeff Sheinberg writes:

 JS> There is no need to waste a partition on this.  On most
 JS> partition layouts, the first partition starts on the second
 JS> track.

Yes, this is another good place to put things.

 JS>     Also, what's wrong with putting grub's stage2 in a real
 JS> filesystem file?  As long as this file is not moved about, and is
 JS> a *copy* of the original stage2 then everything works out ok.

This is a good one, too.  My suggestion here is to use chattr to make
the stage2 file immutable (`chattr +i stage2').

I'll definitely keep all these options in mind when it comes time to
implement a friendlier GRUB installation.

-- 
 Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/)
Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)

Reply via email to