On Tue 22 Dec 2015 at 20:44:31 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Nicolas George <geo...@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
