[gentoo-user] Weirdness Here

[gentoo-user] Weirdness Here

[CJoeB]

Hi Guys,

Something weird is going on with my system.  I have been trying to 
upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the 
sata drive on my laptop recognized.  So, I've been sticking to a kernel 
that works.  That is just a lead-in to the situation.

Today, I wanted to check /boot to make sure that I had removed residual 
files from my last failed kernel upgrade.  First, let me say that my 
system boots fine into the kernel that I have been using successfully - 
i.e. everything happens as expected when I boot.  However, in /boot, all 
I have is a symlink that says that boot is a link to . (dot).  I don't 
see any grub directory or any of the files that should be there.  What 
gives?  This is making me a little antsy!  Any suggestions as to what is 
going on?  Any ideas how to solve the situation?

Regards,

Colleen

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[gentoo-user] Re: Weirdness Here

[CJoeB]

Disregard the message below.  I've figured it out.  Sorry!  ;-(

Colleen

CJoeB wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Something weird is going on with my system.  I have been trying to 
> upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get 
> the sata drive on my laptop recognized.  So, I've been sticking to a 
> kernel that works.  That is just a lead-in to the situation.
>
> Today, I wanted to check /boot to make sure that I had removed 
> residual files from my last failed kernel upgrade.  First, let me say 
> that my system boots fine into the kernel that I have been using 
> successfully - i.e. everything happens as expected when I boot.  
> However, in /boot, all I have is a symlink that says that boot is a 
> link to . (dot).  I don't see any grub directory or any of the files 
> that should be there.  What gives?  This is making me a little antsy!  
> Any suggestions as to what is going on?  Any ideas how to solve the 
> situation?
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Weirdness Here

[Jason Carson]

Did you create a separate /boot partition when installing Gentoo. If so
you need to mount it

mount /dev/sda1 /boot

or whatever is your boot partition

> Hi Guys,
>
> Something weird is going on with my system.  I have been trying to
> upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the
> sata drive on my laptop recognized.  So, I've been sticking to a kernel
> that works.  That is just a lead-in to the situation.
>
> Today, I wanted to check /boot to make sure that I had removed residual
> files from my last failed kernel upgrade.  First, let me say that my
> system boots fine into the kernel that I have been using successfully -
> i.e. everything happens as expected when I boot.  However, in /boot, all
> I have is a symlink that says that boot is a link to . (dot).  I don't
> see any grub directory or any of the files that should be there.  What
> gives?  This is making me a little antsy!  Any suggestions as to what is
> going on?  Any ideas how to solve the situation?
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Weirdness Here

[Chris Brennan]

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look in your /etc/fstab, is /boot set to noauto? If it is, then /boot
isn't being mounted at boot, mount it by hand, then take a peek ...

CJoeB wrote:
| Hi Guys,
|
| Something weird is going on with my system.  I have been trying to
| upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the
| sata drive on my laptop recognized.  So, I've been sticking to a kernel
| that works.  That is just a lead-in to the situation.
|
| Today, I wanted to check /boot to make sure that I had removed residual
| files from my last failed kernel upgrade.  First, let me say that my
| system boots fine into the kernel that I have been using successfully -
| i.e. everything happens as expected when I boot.  However, in /boot, all
| I have is a symlink that says that boot is a link to . (dot).  I don't
| see any grub directory or any of the files that should be there.  What
| gives?  This is making me a little antsy!  Any suggestions as to what is
| going on?  Any ideas how to solve the situation?
|
| Regards,
|
| Colleen
|
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Re: [gentoo-user] Weirdness Here

[CJoeB]

Chris Brennan wrote:
> look in your /etc/fstab, is /boot set to noauto? If it is, then /boot
> isn't being mounted at boot, mount it by hand, then take a peek ...

Thanks.  I figured that out.  The thing that stymied me is that I 
normally don't have to manually mount /boot.  Anyway, things are okay now.

Regards,

Colleen
>
> CJoeB wrote:
> | Hi Guys,
> |
> | Something weird is going on with my system.  I have been trying to
> | upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the
> | sata drive on my laptop recognized.  So, I've been sticking to a kernel
> | that works.  That is just a lead-in to the situation.
> |
> | Today, I wanted to check /boot to make sure that I had removed residual
> | files from my last failed kernel upgrade.  First, let me say that my
> | system boots fine into the kernel that I have been using successfully -
> | i.e. everything happens as expected when I boot.  However, in /boot, all
> | I have is a symlink that says that boot is a link to . (dot).  I don't
> | see any grub directory or any of the files that should be there.  What
> | gives?  This is making me a little antsy!  Any suggestions as to what is
> | going on?  Any ideas how to solve the situation?
> |
> | Regards,
> |
> | Colleen
> |

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