On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:38:50 +0530, Man Shankar wrote:

> > mount -oremount,ro /boot solves that problem for me. It's the last
> > command in the update script I mentioned before. And there's always
> > GRML, just in case :-)  
> 
> Since, /boot seldom requires work i have this in fstab
> 
> /dev/sda1	/boot	ext2	noauto	1 2

That leaves the opportunity to forget to mount /boot when you should.
Mounting it ro gives you a big fat warning if you try to do something
silly.

These days I rarely have a separate /boot, but I do have backups :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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