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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
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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?

No.

> If not, is there an option to inhibit grub from writing to the boot
> device?

No.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin