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 4.54) id 1FDVzE-000159-Vc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:11:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1R09J4i011724; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:09:19 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1R02BNF006696 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:02:11 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D71698E for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09389-01-3 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from monster (ip70-178-175-2.ks.ks.cox.net [70.178.175.2]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD89E464 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:02:09 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] system boot Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:02:07 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060226235126.2124.qmail@yourcakes.com> In-Reply-To: <20060226235126.2124.qmail@yourcakes.com> 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: <200602261802.07756.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net X-Archives-Salt: 37533156-e266-4192-bf81-7f4921309136 X-Archives-Hash: d7365f478adc65eb877ccc6a4f4790ba On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:51, "Pete" wrote about '[gentoo-user] system boot': > This is what I don't understand > > ------------------ > > yababa root # ls -l /boot/ > total 1272 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483904 Feb 26 04:56 > System.map-2.4.19r10AR lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 12 > 2003 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 814688 Feb 26 04:40 > bzImageAR yababa root # > > --------------------- > > boot points to itself. That's pretty standard. From my system: # mount /boot # ls /boot/boot -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 30 10:46 /boot/boot -> . # umount /boot # ls /boot -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Aug 6 2005 boot -> . drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jan 31 09:29 grub Not really sure why that grub directory is in there... > Before I copied the System.map-2.4.19r10AR and > bzImageAR, there was nothing in there. > > How does the system boot? ? ? Could boot be on a separate partition? Check /etc/fstab. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list