Chris Murphy wrote: > Not sure what would corrupt it but there is competition for LBA 0, > the MBR, in that there's a bootloader portion in the first ~440 bytes > and then a partition table from that point until the 512th byte. So > whenever something changes a partition or a boot flag (active bit) > or bootloader jump code, there's a risk. This was such a well known > problem it directly affected GPT. For one, don't use LBA 0. Two, > make two copies in two totally different locations. Three, checksum > everything. Four, give the bootloader its own home, no sharing. Interesting advice but it leaves me without a course of action. How does one avoid using LBA 0? Doesn't the boot loader already have its own location? -- Dave Close _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
