From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does grub have to write to the boot device to boot a system?
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:11:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1205791861.7778.16.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205791169.12850.4.camel@thinix-laptop>
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?
> >
> > No.
> >
>
> 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?
Perhaps it's the mount counter and the mount timestamp (if it's ext2 or
ext3).
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-17 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-17 20:26 Does grub have to write to the boot device to boot a system? Paul Albrecht
2008-03-17 21:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-17 21:59 ` Paul Albrecht
2008-03-17 22:09 ` ardoRic
2008-03-18 13:31 ` Paul Albrecht
2008-03-17 22:11 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-03-18 13:33 ` Paul Albrecht
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