On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 18:11 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:59 -0500, Paul Albrecht 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? > > Perhaps it's the mount counter and the mount timestamp (if it's ext2 or > ext3).
Yes, That's it ... nautilus mounted the boot partition which updated the last mount time. Thanks! > -- Paul Albrecht _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
