Re: Does grub have to write to the boot device to boot a system?

[Paul Albrecht]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 22:09 +0000, ardoRic wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Paul Albrecht <address@hidden> 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!

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Paul Albrecht