On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Jordan Uggla wrote: > > > What should one backup on a GPT disk before installing GRUB? > > Generally nothing. grub-install won't touch the partition table,
It does overwrite the MBR on an MBR disk. Do you mean it won't touch the first sector of a GPT disk? Then how does GRUB steps ahead of the Windows 8 bootmgr? > What is your end goal? I want to know how to restore a GPT disk to its original state after removing GRUB. Is it possible to do it from a live Linux session, or does one have to use a Windows 8 recovery drive? Ariszló http://ariszlo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
