Paul Albrecht wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:14 -0700, walt wrote:
Paul Albrecht wrote:
Hi,
A question: Does grub have to write to the boot device to boot a system?
If not, is there an option to inhibit grub from writing to the boot
device?
If I knew your motivation for asking perhaps I could give you a better
answer.
More specifically, I'm booting linux with grub and have setup a separate
boot partition. After I boot the system, I md5sum'ed the boot device and
compared it with one saved from a prior boot.
That last bit needs more details. Explain exactly what you mean by md5sum'd
the boot device. What exactly do you type on the commandline?
They're always different.
I think grub is writing the boot sector because I md5sum'ed all the
files in my boot partition and they remain unchanged over a boot.
Any idea why grub would be writing to the boot sector or is there some
other explanation?
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