On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Paul Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? >
if it was mounted and it's not a read-only filesystem it's quite probable that your OS changed something in the filesystem meta data. Example would be updating last mount time. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
