On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 22:09 +0000, ardoRic wrote: > 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. >
That's it ... the boot partition was mounted by nautilus so at least the mount time was updated. Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- Paul Albrecht _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
