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I implemented a system for an OS bootstrap that uses a scheme similar to this, though I deliberately placed the boot partitions "underneath" (carefully double-mapped) files within the file system that were expressly created for the purpose of "protecting" the boot-level structures from the OS and its disk activities.
The files were located over specific ranges of disk blocks that were known to the console; so long as that mapping was maintained, everybody was happy.
That change would require changes to a few OS-level tools; to (for instance) a Linux partition or Windows. (I had that option.)
The other approach is to place the boot structures in a boot partition; to use one of the four slots available in MBR for a partition for the boot tools.
The consoles I was working with support EFI (and which has its areas of brain damage) and console makes allocating a GRUB2 boot partition trivial. That keeps the console and its tools from stomping on the partitions, and the applications from stomping the boot loader.
If you're stuck back in BIOS-land with MBR (and no easy way to launch into EFI), there's likely no good solution to these collisions other than grabbing an MBR slot, as there's almost certainly no general Windows coordination policy here other than "don't do that".
Microsoft Windows itself has occasionally and classically stomped on foreign-format disks; it had the galactic stupid of writing a "harmless" signature to disks it didn't find MBR structures on. If the console pilot allowed Windows to write that "harmless" signature and your foreign file system was corrupted.
I implemented a system for an OS bootstrap that uses a scheme similar to this, though I deliberately placed the boot partitions "underneath" (carefully double-mapped) files within the file system that were expressly created for the purpose of "protecting" the boot-level structures from the OS and its disk activities.
The files were located over specific ranges of disk blocks that were known to the console; so long as that mapping was maintained, everybody was happy.
That change would require changes to a few OS-level tools; to (for instance) a Linux partition or Windows. (I had that option.)
The other approach is to place the boot structures in a boot partition; to use one of the four slots available in MBR for a partition for the boot tools.
The consoles I was working with support EFI (and which has its areas of brain damage) and console makes allocating a GRUB2 boot partition trivial. That keeps the console and its tools from stomping on the partitions, and the applications from stomping the boot loader.
If you're stuck back in BIOS-land with MBR (and no easy way to launch into EFI), there's likely no good solution to these collisions other than grabbing an MBR slot, as there's almost certainly no general Windows coordination policy here other than "don't do that".
Microsoft Windows itself has occasionally and classically stomped on foreign-format disks; it had the galactic stupid of writing a "harmless" signature to disks it didn't find MBR structures on. If the console pilot allowed Windows to write that "harmless" signature and your foreign file system was corrupted.