It is quite telling, though. I remember the first time I figured out that boot wasn't required to br mounted to boot the machine. That and the following research helped me to figure out better how the whole boot process works.
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 16:07:58 -0700 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/02/03 14:53, James McDonald wrote: > > >> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Tom Wilson wrote: > >>> /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults,noauto 1 2 > >> > >> noauto usually means, do not automatically mount at bootup. > >> > > I noticed my gentoo install recommends doing the noauto thing so that the > > boot partition in general remains unmounted... > > > > I hadn't heard that there was a boot partitiion corruption risk but hey > > I've only been using linux for ~4 yrs. Still got a lot to learn. > > I have mine mounted read-only, which sounds like a far more intuitive > solution. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 4:05pm up 4 days, 30 min, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.12, 0.04 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eisgr.com/ Enterprise Information Systems *Network Service Appliances *Network Consulting, Integration & Support *Web Development and E-Business _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
