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

[Paul Albrecht]

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.
> 
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Paul Albrecht