Re: transferring boot

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:21:06 -0400
Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:

> You typically want to mount / as read-only; while you want to mount
> /var as read-write. Or some people want to mount the filesystem
> read-only.

Do you want to mount /root r-o? /etc? I think not.

With some handwaiving, yes.

Apple has been doing it for about a decade: About System Integrity Protection on your Mac, <https://support.apple.com/en-us/102149>.

 

For what the OP is up to, mounting the old file systems (on the HD)
until he is satisfied he has everything working right is probably a
good idea. But that's a different can of politicians.

Jeff