Re: Attempt to Move Root
On Tue 22 Dec 2015 at 20:44:31 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> > Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, John Hasler a écrit :
> >> Think about multiboot home user systems.
>
> > Multiboot or no multiboot, once the system(s) is/are installed, nobody
> > writes outside the partitions.
>
> 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.
However (whoever is "right"), Debian developers are aware of this
problem and are willing to fix it if it happens:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/windows-applications-making-grub2-unbootable.html
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