Bug#550702: grub-pc: Grub hangs after having ran Windows XP

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

This is yet another modification on crappy windows applications like
Flexible Lies Manager. This is neither Debian nor GRUB bug, but of the
windows application which improperly writes to MBR gap.
However this is a relatively widespread issue, so in upstream we now
write that part using Reed-Solomon so we're not affected by this
misbehaviour other than the time needed to recover from corruption in
Reed-Solomon.


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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