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 CCA7D1381F3 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 18:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 868C9E0AF5; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 18:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f170.google.com (mail-lb0-f170.google.com [209.85.217.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47267E0984 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 18:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f170.google.com with SMTP id w7so3900063lbi.29 for ; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:35:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TTA9al9gYsARKFv8fhUHbOqWbz5lSvO0k1aaxiNu/+w=; b=Ya2n5fuzIegKHJ0a8nlTm0o9XYj3+N46dJdHZFqBROqAH1xXnCNeRzS9AFd6weXbyy WuJ0MS2Hr4zKqdBbDOiYkIRMJIDZ9ItCjey98i01B0Ty1Y9R+YmaiAGHBp7iOS35BFCi zPc8cUZdPos/2et2liQL0gQ/z6OBYTVFvsGDw7KlbbPfEpOHpVceJphw/dQGpN8CtGtf pecvZWegdgnJglAEcHxDM1co3TzZt3ppRMd7cqko4H7dwbm1BTEl6snjYM8A1iAR5cp+ Y/C8x19ZOrKRWzJxZTjwcoVt6gDIF7JDwWuyJjhFJ8y3aFK0zoA8VV9Tj2iM4WDKr2Ef lgJA== 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 X-Received: by 10.152.203.233 with SMTP id kt9mr2654146lac.29.1378578908532; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:35:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.96.2 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:35:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <522B6F69.1060104@gmail.com> References: <522B6B12.2040903@gmail.com> <522B6F69.1060104@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 13:35:08 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7] From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ef9d34a3-233b-47dd-aee3-b96e08273fe9 X-Archives-Hash: 66afc45160fe1c9f3c0388a0c3451fc2 On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On 09/07/2013 09:11 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s 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? By the contents of your fstab, it should... > 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=3Dordered) > /dev/sda5 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime) ,,,however mount says up there that it's not mounted. > box0 boot # fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors > Units =3D sectors of 1 * 512 =3D 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 / Sola= ris > /dev/sda3 1116160 43059199 20971520 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 43059200 488397167 222668984 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 43061248 488397167 222667960 83 Linux For some reason your /boot partition didn't get mounted. See the boot logs, and try to mounting by hand. Perhaps the fsck failed or it needs manual intervention. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico