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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:26:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C914815.6050608@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C9142AF.3060603@gmail.com>

Jake Moe wrote:
> Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support.
>
> As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in
> question).  It just doesn't exist for some reason.  However, fstab shows
> that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not
> sure why it's dropped out.  I'm guessing it has something to do with
> udevd, or uevents?  Because shortly before that, I tell it to find the
> root partition at /dev/sda1, and it starts to boot, but then it loses it.
>
> Jake Moe
>
>    

The file fstab doesn't show what is mounted.  Either use the command 
"mount" with no options or cat /etc/mtab to see what is actually mounted.

Dale

:-)  :-)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-15 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10  5:09 [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick Jake Moe
2010-09-10  7:27 ` Maciej Grela
2010-09-10  8:43   ` Jake Moe
2010-09-10  9:05     ` J. Roeleveld
2010-09-10 11:29       ` David Relson
2010-09-14 18:28         ` YoYo Siska
2010-09-14 22:34           ` Jake Moe
2010-09-15 10:10             ` YoYo Siska
2010-09-15 22:03               ` Jake Moe
2010-09-15 22:18                 ` Al
2010-09-15 22:43                   ` Jake Moe
2010-09-15 23:04                     ` Al
2010-09-16  0:21                       ` Jake Moe
2010-09-16 11:08                         ` Al
2010-09-15 22:26                 ` Dale [this message]
2010-09-15 22:34                   ` Jake Moe
2010-09-16  6:22                     ` J. Roeleveld
2010-09-16 10:01                       ` Jake Moe
2010-09-16 11:30                         ` J. Roeleveld
2010-09-21  5:35                           ` Jake Moe
2010-09-21  7:26                             ` J. Roeleveld
2010-09-22  4:36                               ` Jake Moe
2010-09-22  7:02                                 ` Al
2010-09-22  8:57                                   ` Jake Moe
2010-09-22  7:16                                 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-09-22  9:13                                   ` Jake Moe
2010-09-22 11:23                                     ` J. Roeleveld
2010-09-10 10:51 ` Al

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