HD Install :: Can I use fromhd= home= opt= at the same time?

cbagger01: frugal doesn't seem to do it. I tried the following in grub:
root=/dev/hda4 dsl home=hda4 frugal

I received an error saying the drive was already mounted. I'm thinking there should be a failsafe built in....something that checks to see if it's mounted and then does "mount --bind" if the drive is already mounted.

This may sound stupid, but what exactly does the frugal boot option do? I have heard of it but didnt see a clear cut answer when I searched the forums.

When you boot without it, the root device is mounted read-only, even if it is a writeable device. The frugal option apparently remounts the device read-write.

Wow .
Like Adssse, I looked for info
after I noticed the new Grub install script
had this boot option by default.
I removed it, not knowing what it was,
when I had some unrelated problems.
(Yes, it's actually very very clever to remove
things you don't understand!).
So that means the root filesystem of a Frugal
install can be rw.....I dont have to boot a live
cd to make changes to Grubs menu.list,
or add things to my treasured /optional
directory?
Wow.

Wow, I had no idea, I guess I need to ask questions more often. That would certainly be nice in certain situations especially. Thanks for the info.

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