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There used to be an absolutely fascinating bug with Wine and Diablo II - if you had raw write access to /dev/hda, running Diablo II would nuke your MBR, so on n

There used to be an absolutely fascinating bug with Wine and Diablo II - if you had raw write access to /dev/hda, running Diablo II would nuke your MBR, so on next reboot, you'd be staring at No Operating System Found. [1] is a Gentoo forum post about it, I can't find the Wine bug. This didn't happen on Windows, just in Wine. It also went away in the 1.10 patch IIRC, so whatever mysterious behavior resulted in that got fixed. edit: Found it! [2] It was even more recent than I remembered. [1] - https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2723361.html?sid=3c70ad39fad18fe01a49bbc8c61e0356 https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2723361.html?sid=3c70a... [2] - https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4672 https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4672

rvnx 6y ago
The outcome of the WineHQ bug isn't clear, was it eventually fixed ?
- rincebrain 6y ago
  My recollection (which has already proven faulty) was that the problem eventually went away with a later patch; it could also be that as most distros don't put users in a "disk" group any more by default, that it's simply gone away as a side effect.