On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatu...@comcast.net> wrote: > Le 2015-08-27 23:36, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit : >> >> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:25:01 PM Michel Catudal wrote: >>> >>> This is nonsense. I have never had a case where it would not boot when I >> >> have grub correctly installed on the partition. >> >> Install grub to a partition and do something like this: >> >> su >> cd >> mv /boot/grub grub >> cp -r grub /boot >> rm -r grub >> > What is your point? same if I do that with grub1, it was even more fun with > windows 98 by deleting win.ini or renaming it "win .ini" > With grub on the partition my bootloader doesn't get wacked and I can > restore the OS if I do a stupid thing like this.
I think you missed his point. If you do those commands your system will actually reboot just fine most likely. Today. It might reboot tomorrow too. A few weeks from now it probably won't. Copying and deleting the grub stages doesn't bother grub one bit. On the other hand, overwritting those no-longer-allocated blocks with other data will. And that is why you need to use --force to make grub behave in this manner. -- Rich
