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? > > If not, is there an option to inhibit grub from writing to the boot > > device? > > No. > -- Paul Albrecht _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
