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

[David Balazic]

Brian Sammon wrote:
> 
> > 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?

Look for Subject : Re: [Bug-grub] Re: address@hidden: Re: Bug#185770:
grub: incompatible with Windows 2000 NTFS when installed on MBR]
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