recent kernel upgrades damage mbr

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 17 June 2008, M A Young wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Maurizio Marini wrote:
>> I would advice any list member that it is in the wild a issue regarding
>> grub and mbr.
>
>I don't know if this is relevant, but F8 grub (unless the latest update
>has been written to the boot sector) can't cope with filesystems created
>on F9 because of the inode size change. So it is definitely a good idea to
>upgrade grub if you are upgrading.
>
> 	Michael Young

Which may be a good idea, Michael, but does this require the silent re-writing 
of the mbr to accomplish this?  For existing, already setup and working drives, 
I don't think so.

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