stage2 in unallocated space Re: an alternative approach...

[Brian Sammon]

> Dn not put stuff in unallocated space, because the next program that
> does the same thing, will overwrite your stuff.
> This was discussed just a few weeks ago.
> Create partition instead.

What other programs overwrite unallocated space?  Besides fdisk and other 
bootloaders?

Would it be better if I put a placeholder partition in the unallocated 
space?  I want to make sure that a stupid DOS user can't accidentally 
delete the stage2 file with the "format" or "delete" command.  However, I 
want grub to look for the menu.lst in one of the DOS partitions.

I tried looking through the archives, but I can't find the discussion you 
are referring to.  Can you give me some pointers as to what to look for?