Comment 19 for bug 551721

OK, I've t many things to do under Windows and Ubuntu, so I can break
my GRUB many times... It's just a question of time :-)

Le 22/09/2010 15:39, Colin Watson a écrit :
> It's only bad news in that the contents of the sector that's been
> overwritten are almost completely different from what you gave me
> before. The only similarity I can see is that there's the following
> sequence of characters in your first dump:
>
> 77DNN88M7100000000WX
>
> ... and the following sequence in your second dump:
>
> XW0000000017M88NND77
>
> The latter is exactly the reverse of the former. Did you receive any
> Dell updates in the intervening time?
>
> Could you repeat the procedure (say) three more times - reinstall GRUB,
> record image with dd, reboot to Windows, do whatever you need to do to
> break things, record image with dd, and repeat? I'd like to try to get
> an idea of which features of the overwritten sector are stable and can
> be detected.
>
>