From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ebnjo-0002mQ-Gp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:27:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAENQrO8006434; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:26:53 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAENN8En026491 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:23:09 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D440218036 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:23:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28203-02 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:23:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.51] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE19518035 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:23:06 -0600 (CST) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:23:17 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <1f81f7e00511141258n2c959a0bi63b7a3b63b232fd5@mail.gmail.com> <200511141455.24009.bulliver@badcomputer.org> In-Reply-To: <200511141455.24009.bulliver@badcomputer.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511141723.17906.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: 04f3f7da-2e8a-4e24-aeb7-6a58a7e3e14f X-Archives-Hash: 4b5b24d33b6d3d7c6b78820c5cf6bdeb On Monday 14 November 2005 16:54, darren kirby wrote: > quoth the John Jolet: > > On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > > (I prefer bottom posting but am following the prev poster.) > > > > > > I looks as though you had /boot on a separate partition from / (in you > > > new install). > > > > > > So instead of > > > > > > mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo > > > > > > you need > > > > > > mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo > > > > > > where x is 1 or 2 or whichever partition you used for /. > > > > umm, did I miss a memo? > > he was trying to fix fstab, which is in /etc, not /boot. > > Right, which is why Allen said to mount whichever partition is '/', rather > than /boot. Read his post again ;) my bad. Misunderstood what he was saying. > > -d -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list