>>>>> 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.
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