On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:37:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I have put MBR and boot partition on a USB thumb drive because the > failure rate of a R/O flash is lower than rotating devices (in my > experience). Use ext2 for boot, no journal so the drive works really > read-only. Hopefully grub2 mounts the boot noatime. Another option, although I've not done this for a long time, is PXE boot. You need a DHCP server giving out the correct parameters and a TFTP server for the kernel (and ramdisk?) Regards, Brian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html