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Will a consumer-class OS (Windows/OSX/Ubuntu) even boot if all writes to a system drive are failing?

• ushi 12y ago
  It shouldn't be a problem to boot a Linux from a read-only device.
• rbanffy 12y ago
  I don't know about the consumer-grade OSs you mentioned, but I have booted Ubuntu from read-only media countless times - it's a good way to start compute nodes that'll get and save their data to a network.