From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P4dY3-0000uJ-Sp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:49:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFE39E076C; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:48:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp206.alice.it (smtp206.alice.it [82.57.200.102]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7306BE076C for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:48:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from infra.agr.fm (87.14.5.216) by smtp206.alice.it (8.5.124.08) id 4C1A268C07365CC9 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 19:48:25 +0200 Received: from [192.168.64.9] (silver.agr.fm [192.168.64.9]) by infra.agr.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4F15DD124 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 19:48:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4CB0AAE8.3060104@alyf.net> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:48:24 +0200 From: Andrea Conti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does updating grub require mounting /boot first? References: <4CB098C1.4090905@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <4CB098C1.4090905@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1e38b5b3-ded3-420b-b01e-4c2e7cadd030 X-Archives-Hash: 4c2d0a366eccab28383580c0cde317c3 On 09/10/2010 18:30, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello, > > I'm ready to update grub, but just realized I'm not sure if I need to > mount /boot before I emerge update it or not... /boot must be mounted, but the ebuild will mount it for you if it is not. Note however that the ebuild will *not* update the stages installed in the MBR and/or boot sector: after you're done emerging you have to do that either manually or by re-running grub-install. Depending on what changed between the two releases, failure to update the stages might result in an unbootable system. HTH, andrea