Am Montag, den 27.08.2007, 11:58 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:29:58 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I should have set noauto the instant I found out about it. Any
> > other recommended mount options? Right now they are
> > 
> > defaults,noauto,user_xattr 1 2
> 
> The trouble with using noauto is that sooner or later you will forget to
> mount /boot before installing a new kernel. I prefer to us ro instead, so
> /boot is mounted read-only. It still removes the possibility of
> corruption, but gives a clear error if you try to install a kernel
> without remounting rw.

That's why I made a tiny script for Genkernel that does the mounting and
unmounting. This also has the advantage of me not having to remember the
Genkernel options ;).

> Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed
> with modern hardware.

I use lvm, so that wouldn't yield good results :-/.
-- 
Marc Joliet
--
"Of course, I could switch back to Windows. At least there, if I have a
problem, I don't suffer under the illusion that I could ever fix it." - Unknown
(paraphrased)

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