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Re: Does grub have to write to the boot device to boot a system?
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Paul Albrecht |
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Re: Does grub have to write to the boot device to boot a system? |
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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:33:43 -0500 |
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 18:11 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:59 -0500, Paul Albrecht wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 17:20 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 15:26 -0500, Paul Albrecht wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > A question: Does grub have to write to the boot device to boot a system?
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> > > No.
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> > 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. They're always different.
> >
> > Any idea why the md5sums for the boot device differ?
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> Perhaps it's the mount counter and the mount timestamp (if it's ext2 or
> ext3).
Yes, That's it ... nautilus mounted the boot partition which updated the
last mount time. Thanks!
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Paul Albrecht