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Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Sven Hartge a écrit :
> In ye olde days (pre-Windowsm 98) some programs (I think Photoshop did
> it.) wrote licence data into that space, because it was unused. The copy
> protection scheme of some games also tried to hide information there.
> 
> So "nobody" is not quite right. "nobody with the right mind" would be a
> better description.

I did not know that, it is simply disgusting. Well, if you have to deal with
bad-behaved proprietary programs that fancy themselves more powerful than
the operating system, then you can not use that feature of GRUB. That means
you have to put its second stage in a partition; obviously, this is possible
too.

But when dealing with that level of stupidity, really there is nothing to
do: we can not trust these proprietary programs will not decide to write
anywhere on the disk just because they have decided they have the right to
do so, or because they have a bug.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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Attempt to Move Root David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-12-20 12:10 +0100
  Re: Attempt to Move Root Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-12-20 19:20 +0100
    Re: Attempt to Move Root David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-12-20 22:00 +0100
      Re: Attempt to Move Root Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-12-20 22:40 +0100
  Re: Attempt to Move Root David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-12-21 10:00 +0100
    Re: Attempt to Move Root David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-12-21 11:00 +0100
      Re: Attempt to Move Root Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-12-21 16:30 +0100
        Re: Attempt to Move Root Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-21 16:40 +0100
          Re: Attempt to Move Root Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-12-21 21:40 +0100
        Re: Attempt to Move Root David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-12-21 16:40 +0100
          Re: Attempt to Move Root Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-12-21 21:00 +0100
            Re: Attempt to Move Root David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-12-21 21:50 +0100
              Re: Attempt to Move Root Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-12-21 22:20 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-12-22 08:50 +0100
            Re: Attempt to Move Root Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-12-22 17:00 +0100
              Re: Attempt to Move Root John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-12-22 18:40 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-12-22 18:40 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-12-22 19:50 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2015-12-22 20:50 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-12-22 21:20 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-12-22 23:10 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2015-12-22 23:30 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-12-23 10:40 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2015-12-24 02:20 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-12-24 12:20 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-12-27 14:10 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-12-27 14:50 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-12-27 15:20 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-12-27 15:40 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-12-27 16:00 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-12-27 16:20 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-12-28 03:50 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-12-28 03:50 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-27 16:10 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> - 2016-01-01 10:20 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-01-01 11:40 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2015-12-28 03:50 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-12-28 03:50 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-12-22 23:40 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-12-25 17:10 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-12-22 19:50 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root (SOLVED!!) David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-12-23 10:00 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root (SOLVED!!) Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 12:50 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root (SOLVED!!) David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-12-23 13:20 +0100
              Re: Attempt to Move Root Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-12-25 16:40 +0100
                Re: Attempt to Move Root Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-12-28 05:00 +0100
      Re: Attempt to Move Root David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-12-21 20:00 +0100

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