From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "mount" and "cat /etc/mtab" inside install chroot?
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:54:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1568743.81bfSX6GRC@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140419114318.GC1084@waltdnes.org>
On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 07:43:18 Walter Dnes wrote:
> I've got another thread going called...
> "Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop". Before I
> file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my fault. Can
> people here do me a favour? If you have a Gentoo install CD or USB key
> handy, and are willing to reboot, can you please do the following...
>
> 1) boot from the install ISO
> 2) chroot to a running environment
> 3) list the output from the 2 commands
> mount
> cat /etc/mtab
>
> I'm getting absolutely no output at all from those 2 commands in the
> install chroot. That screws up the lilo ebuild install process. I want
> to check whether blank /etc/mtab is my fault or not.
The installation handbook used to include a command to write /etc/mtab in the
chroot by grepping the host mtab, but it's been removed and I haven't been
able to find it. Meanwhile, I think it's standard behaviour for mtab not to be
populated during the installation process.
So I'd also be interested to hear from anyone who knows what mtab should
contain.
--
Regards
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-19 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-19 11:43 [gentoo-user] Output of "mount" and "cat /etc/mtab" inside install chroot? Walter Dnes
2014-04-19 12:21 ` Tom H
2014-04-19 12:54 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2014-04-19 13:37 ` Mark David Dumlao
2014-04-19 14:24 ` Tom H
2014-04-19 21:16 ` Walter Dnes
2014-04-21 10:16 ` Tom H
2014-04-20 22:55 ` yac
2014-04-21 8:38 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-04-21 23:44 ` Walter Dnes
2014-04-22 8:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-04-23 3:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen
2014-04-22 11:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Tom H
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