From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQesA-0005gs-VB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:32:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 886E5E0316; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B92E0316 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 85B3C2437BA for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:32:12 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:32:02 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config Message-ID: <20090124093202.3c63fd24@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <20090124010849.GB10798@gentoo.mychoice> References: <49bf44f10901221812v19b510f5y93fe3f64d8b5b534@mail.gmail.com> <200901230404.54942.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <497954A5.60205@gmail.com> <4979755B.8060705@konstantinhansen.de> <49797784.9070507@gmail.com> <1232698595.2632.13.camel@mymachine> <497983A3.4090209@gmail.com> <1232700861.2632.19.camel@mymachine> <20090124010849.GB10798@gentoo.mychoice> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs39 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/M3ui3N8djewU4/K7hVZqk7S"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 25c7bc28-f71c-468c-8ecd-9cd17e94e24f X-Archives-Hash: f4cc9cfc5a7de1fdf6729d41c342679b --Sig_/M3ui3N8djewU4/K7hVZqk7S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 :-) =20 >=20 > Since, /boot seldom requires work i have this in fstab >=20 > /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 :) --=20 Neil Bothwick This screen intentionally left blank. --Sig_/M3ui3N8djewU4/K7hVZqk7S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkl64BgACgkQum4al0N1GQMVZwCeI4iHo7ODe0Mxck3laGmt+wgg R7EAoIRpMvIw45wnzHXiDoIkeIeduxLt =fN85 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/M3ui3N8djewU4/K7hVZqk7S--