read-only in lilo

[rrfish72]

What does the read-only line do :

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26
label="2. Knoppix(2.4)"
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.26
append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce quiet lang=us"
read-only

This is from my lilo.conf and was wondering why it has that there. Is there a way to set the windows boot option to read-write?

other=/dev/hda1
label="1. WindowsXP"

[OErjan]

the line read-only is just to protect linux from bad things.
it prevents writing to the disk during the initial disk scaning when booting, it has nothing to do with Win or anything else, just the scandisk when starting linux.
hope this helps
OErjan