From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F6311581D3 for ; Wed, 15 May 2024 07:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2E3CE2A15; Wed, 15 May 2024 07:42:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 74701E29EA for ; Wed, 15 May 2024 07:42:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host31-49-121-21.range31-49.btcentralplus.com ([31.49.121.21] helo=[192.168.1.99]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1s79HD-000000009E7-7772 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 May 2024 08:42:15 +0100 Message-ID: <74ade325-39d6-44f1-adf1-d7d6f73ac1d8@youngman.org.uk> Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 08:42:14 +0100 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <14aad0fe-06ff-577a-de92-d27a34c8a357@gmail.com> <6042053.lOV4Wx5bFT@cube> Content-Language: en-GB From: Wols Lists In-Reply-To: <6042053.lOV4Wx5bFT@cube> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e75dce8b-da56-436d-8652-514ac2e5250a X-Archives-Hash: 50761df7f772ee599e782e39b6088e40 On 02/05/2024 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: > When I started using Linux, the received wisdom was to keep a separate /boot, > and leave it unmounted during normal operation. The idea was that a successful > hacker would not, supposedly, be able to corrupt the kernel ready for a reboot > into their system. And you can't have /boot on your system partition if, like me, you have one instance of grub booting into several different OSs or distros ... Less so now, but having multiple distros on one system was a popular hobbyist pastime! (One distro's system partition is another distro's data partion :-) Cheers, Wol