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linux boot /boot mounted

From: cbbrowne@hex.net
Subject: Re: How can I turn off without shutting down
References: <2d32d471.0108070540.2b4a7904@posting.google.com> 
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 05:01:02 GMT

dhbrown@apm6-154.realtime.net (Dave Brown) writes:
> In article <InSb7.21718$_62.1953487@news20.bellglobal.com>, 
> cbbrowne@hex.net wrote:
>> Consider it a given that you'll need a boot partition that _must_
>> be mounted read-only; the same may be true, hopefully, for the root
>> partition.

> I've recently been wondering... does a /boot partition need to be mounted 
> at all, other than when you're using lilo to write the boot record?  It 
> occurs to me that everything required to boot is located by physical disk 
> addresses, not involving a root filesystem into which /boot has been 
> mounted.  After booting, /boot need not be accessed at all... True?

You're right, there; it doesn't normally need to be mounted.

The "must" that I was indicating was for the read-only status, as
opposed to the partition necessarily having to be mounted...
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