Re: [gentoo-user] system boot

["Pete" <pi2list@pi2tech.com>]

Duh ! I didn't notice this. I am working on gentoo for the first time and
the other flavor has /boot auto mounted.

Thanks a ton !
Regards
Pete

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:40:42 +0930, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
wrote :

> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 23:51 +0000, Pete wrote:
> > 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. Before I copied the System.map-2.4.19r10AR and
> > bzImageAR, there was nothing in there.
> > 
> > How does the system boot? ? ?
> 
> you need to mount /boot.  Before you do that, delete (or move) the files
> that you put in (the unmounted) /boot!  /boot isn't mounted by default.
> 
> Once you've mounted /boot, you should see lots of stuff in there.
> 
> HTH,
> -- 
> Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au>
> 
> If it happens once, it's a bug.
> If it happens twice, it's a feature.
> If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy.
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