On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:07:41AM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > 2009/9/26 Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com>: > > At the moment, this is a recipe for GRUB becoming unusable, as the > > interface between the core image and grub.cfg is not yet stable. As > > such, I expect that the Ubuntu package will be changing to make this > > harder to do by accident. > > I suppose I have a special case. > My HD already has a custom boot sector and embedded area doing > something else. So I cannot install grub there at all. > I am currently installing grub onto a usb stick and booting Linux from > the usb stick, with the usb stick just doing the grub bit for me. > I want to make sure that if I do automatic upgrades in ubuntu, it will > never accidentally wipe the custom boot sector and embedded areas of > my HD. > I will manually do grub-install to update the grub on my usb stick.
In future I hope that it'll be possible to tell the package to use the USB stick in a way which is safe - i.e. it definitely won't use the hard disk. Of course, it might object to the USB stick going missing ... In any case, run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' and make sure no devices are selected for the "GRUB install devices:" question. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
