From: yac <yac@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "mount" and "cat /etc/mtab" inside install chroot?
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:55:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140421005556.38abbcf2@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1568743.81bfSX6GRC@wstn>
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On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:54:07 +0100
Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
It was part of grub-install, now grub legacy
https://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap4
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-20 23:00 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
2014-04-21 10:16 ` Tom H
2014-04-20 22:55 ` yac [this message]
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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