Re: Disable grub2 from writing to HDD

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Casey McGinty wrote:
> Thanks, I looked at it. But making the change you suggest is not
> clear. I only see where timeout is set to -1. How do you specify a
> boot target in this case?
default="<title>"
timeout=<number>
> Anyway, I think i'm set with the first suggestion.
>
> 2010/3/31 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden
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>     Casey McGinty wrote:
>     > Allas, the data being written is "recordfail", which causes problems
>     > on a headless system.
>     >
>     recordfail main use is exactly the headless system. Just default
>     ubuntu
>     on boot failure shows the menu but on headless you should make it
>     point
>     to surely working kernel. Have a look at  /etc/grub.d/00_header
>     > 2010/3/31 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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>     >
>     >     Casey McGinty wrote:
>     >     > Hi,
>     >     >
>     >     > I'm running a flash-based system w/ grub2. I do not want grub2
>     >     writing
>     >     > to my boot partition? How can I prevent the grubenv file
>     from being
>     >     > written in any (and all) cases?
>     >     Just remove grubenv file. But I doubt a single (at most)
>     write per
>     >     boot
>     >     would wear your flash in its lifetime even if you reboot
>     every 10
>     >     minutes
>     >     > Thank you.
>     >     > Casey McGinty
>     >     >
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