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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED
  @ 2007-02-07  7:02 99%     ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2007-02-07  7:02 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 2/6/07, Ric de France <rdefrance@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 07/02/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
> > > > That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I
> > > > decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not
> > > > mounted
> > > > so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn't....That
> > > > was a stupid mistake on my part.....
> > > >
> > > > Thanks to all those that answered and sorry for bothering you
> > > > all with this...
> > > >
> > > > Gabriel
> > >
> > > I think we've all made that mistake at some point!
> > >
> > > No need to apologize, it's something to learn from. At least now
> > > when the next newbie makes the same mistake you are in a position
> > > to help them in return :-)
> >
> > Just curious... but does genkernel automatically mount /boot? I use
> > genkernel, and have never had any issues, but I'm pretty sure that
> > I've always mounted /boot before running the genkernel command.
>
> Yes, genkernel mounts /boot right after launched...

genkernel *conditionally* mounts /boot if /etc/genkernel.conf contains 
MOUNTBOOT="yes"

It can be unset with the result that /boot will not be mounted 
automatically

alan

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Alan McKinnon
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2007-02-06 22:47     ` [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED Ric de France
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