From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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 17:16:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140419211652.GA1961@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOdo=SyKs8H565YxYVtU-cHoQhi4532su4er6Qyw-S0ZPytXrw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:24:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote
> I symlink "/proc/self/mounts" to "/etc/mtab".
>
> But the handbook has "grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab".
I re-checked the AMD64 install docs in Firefox "{CTRL}F" "mtab" in...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1
The ***Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install*** section has...
> Code Listing 4.5: Creating /etc/mtab
>
> # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
The lilo install does not have these instructions, neither does grub-2,
just legacy grub. I've installed Gentoo with lilo a lot of times over
the past several years (since November 2004), and I have never had to
tweak /etc/mtab. This implies one of...
* either the behaviour of /etc/mtab has changed.
* or grepping "mount" output is a recent "new and improved feature" of
the lilo ebuild.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-19 21:17 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
2014-04-19 13:37 ` Mark David Dumlao
2014-04-19 14:24 ` Tom H
2014-04-19 21:16 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
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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