Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

[Isaac Dupree]

Zhu Yi wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 11:24 +0800, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> > hmm....
> > bootloader installation is often done by distro install-CDs.
> >
> > Will the distro be smart enough to save these backups to the disk 
> > somewhere sensible, rather than to the temporary in-memory
> > filesystem? 
>
> The backup files will (normally) be stored in /boot/grub/ together with
> grub.cfg and core.img.

if it's there, then excellent, you are right.  After all, /boot/grub 
needs to be permanently on the disk in order for the installed 
bootloader to work, also :-)