On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Dale Amon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:28:23PM -0700, Jordan Uggla wrote: >> Grub legacy is not supported here (it hasn't had an upstream for over >> six years). If you want support for grub legacy you might try asking >> in the support channels for the distribution who you are getting grub >> legacy from. > > I have servers to maintain that have been running > for years and are mission critical so they still > use grub 1. I have to have a failsafe procedure for > getting them back on line exactly as they were > in the absolute minimum possible time, which means > they have to come back exactly as they were, grub 1 > and all.
And for that you'll still need to get support from another venue. > > May I need to store a copy of sector 0 or perhaps > more. I looked at sectors 0-63 of a sample machine > and there appears to be data in all but sector 63. > Is grub using this? Yes. On BIOS systems with an msdos partition table the pos-mbr gap is used as an area to embed grub's core.img. This core.img, along with additional blocks for error correction, will be stored in the pos-mbr gap and could use more than 63 sectors if the core.img needs to be larger, for instance when /boot/ is contained on LVM. It is highly recommended that you use grub-install to install or re-install grub. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
