On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-05-06, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >>> On Thursday 05 May 2016 19:45:53 Mike Gilbert wrote: >>>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: > [...] >>>>> Since grub-2.02 is being installed in a new slot, one would assume it >>>>> won't interfere with continue use of grub-0.97... > [...] >>>> It will not interfere with grub legacy (0.97). >>> >>> Maybe not in the slot, but when it gets installed to the MBR it will >>> overwrite the 0.97 boot code there. >> >> grub only gets installed in the MBR when you invoke grub-install or >> grub2-install. >> >> I assumed that Grant is intelligent not to run grub2-install on his >> system. > > Yes, I know not to run grub2-install (and I trust that winusb will not > do so either). Just to be sure, I'll not run winusb as root...
It is entirely possible that winusb might call grub2-install with your USB disk as a target. That would also be fairly safe.
