[bug #18547] Dell MediaDirect fails after GRUB install

[Stephen Bentley]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18547>

                 Summary: Dell MediaDirect fails after GRUB install
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: konlii
            Submitted on: Monday 12/18/2006 at 17:47
                Category: Booting
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: ALL
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: 

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Details:

Detailed information on MediaDirect can be found at
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.htm

Basically, Dell laptops with MediaDirect have a 'hidden' partition.  This
partition is loaded instead of the OS partition when the MediaDirect button
is pushed to start the computer instead of the power button.  This is
possible because the MBR has a special second sector which only loads
MediaDirect.

Since GRUB rewrites the entire MBR, this functionality is lost completely
when GRUB is installed.  Is there any possiblity of a MediaDirect-capable
version of GRUB being produced?




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