On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 17:07 -0700, walt wrote: > 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?
The boot device is the first primary partition so I use this command: md5sum /dev/sda1 However, I found the problem ... nautilus mounts the boot partition which updates the last mount time. Thanks! > > > 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? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Paul Albrecht _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
