/boot won't mount through fstab

[Matthew Carpenter]

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!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> 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.
> 
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