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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