From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Disable grub2 from writing to HDD
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:46:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB3442B.20806@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s2wae3f58471003310538u3cbabf7aw5750b6979cf45a0c@mail.gmail.com>
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Casey McGinty wrote:
> Allas, the data being written is "recordfail", which causes problems
> on a headless system.
>
recordfail main use is exactly the headless system. Just default ubuntu
on boot failure shows the menu but on headless you should make it point
to surely working kernel. Have a look at /etc/grub.d/00_header
> 2010/3/31 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com
> <mailto:phcoder@gmail.com>>
>
> Casey McGinty wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running a flash-based system w/ grub2. I do not want grub2
> writing
> > to my boot partition? How can I prevent the grubenv file from being
> > written in any (and all) cases?
> Just remove grubenv file. But I doubt a single (at most) write per
> boot
> would wear your flash in its lifetime even if you reboot every 10
> minutes
> > Thank you.
> > Casey McGinty
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-31 12:27 Disable grub2 from writing to HDD Casey McGinty
2010-03-31 12:35 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-03-31 12:38 ` Casey McGinty
2010-03-31 12:46 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2010-03-31 13:06 ` Casey McGinty
2010-03-31 13:36 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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