From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F86A1381F3 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 18:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00EE1E0B2D; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 18:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f175.google.com (mail-we0-f175.google.com [74.125.82.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9596DE0AFA for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 18:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f175.google.com with SMTP id q59so3971745wes.6 for ; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:24:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UXAWpdbtgEIn9Vyk2poikNMVU6ErF4K2xBq+iuzGkMw=; b=c6HVDRfDOoaxAksEuo/yrolAga3HqgRCRCjDatSOzq1EO3qhBfmItx5viaNSC/Hchx uEqv5hhNh0/cESzPaTRBrANTD2PbvGlOgETH2BjSdFLNqxO3YhWOcToVomx6avmUGwht ggPROfpkJJLi+T/lz2bGNWGGWBAnGoX4cbF42EBLS3XXVpH74Z0M94cZgxzTWPrwLm0r nfIyXMH3QlyD6HZv29rsxZtg33VUnapp8yMpKajFNQyBUz1tFiG3yoT81bZ+hUWhbdpK 0FitaVSRxeBLwZQF00mAFbCf0FC0zgLofRmwD7b/CJHC0AlgqvCi+d4reygXXryoLl7b ntTA== X-Received: by 10.180.72.195 with SMTP id f3mr2772718wiv.51.1378578273249; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (213-154-212-42.static.vega-ua.net. [213.154.212.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id jf2sm5360870wic.2.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <522B6F69.1060104@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:24:41 +0300 From: Alexander Kapshuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130831 Thunderbird/17.0.8 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] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7] References: <522B6B12.2040903@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 6bbf2bf1-b1a4-4958-9dcb-e0293d20d37d X-Archives-Hash: 046554d7f261877dd4e9be62b0e95e34 On 09/07/2013 09:11 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Just compiled the new kernel [3.10.7], was about to edit my >> /boot/grub/grub.conf, and found it missing: >> box0 boot # pwd >> /boot >> box0 boot # ls -a >> . .. kernel-3.10.7-gentoo kernel-3.8.13-gentoo >> >> What did I miss? > Do you have /boot in a separated partition? Did you mounted it? > > Nothing should touch /boot, AFAIK. > > Regards. I do have '/boot' on a separate partition. If I understand it correctly, '/boot' gets mounted every time at system start-up, based on '/etc/fstab', does it not? box0 boot # cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 default,noatime 0 2 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda3 / ext4 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda5 /home ext4 noatime 0 2 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0 box0 boot # mount|grep /dev/sda /dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered) /dev/sda5 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime) box0 boot # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 67583 32768 83 Linux /dev/sda2 67584 1116159 524288 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 1116160 43059199 20971520 83 Linux /dev/sda4 43059200 488397167 222668984 5 Extended /dev/sda5 43061248 488397167 222667960 83 Linux