Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "mount" and "cat /etc/mtab" inside install chroot?

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 07:43:18 Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>> I've got another thread going called...
>> "Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop". Before I
>> file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my fault. Can
>> people here do me a favour? If you have a Gentoo install CD or USB key
>> handy, and are willing to reboot, can you please do the following...
>>
>> 1) boot from the install ISO
>> 2) chroot to a running environment
>> 3) list the output from the 2 commands
>> mount
>> cat /etc/mtab
>>
>> I'm getting absolutely no output at all from those 2 commands in the
>> install chroot. That screws up the lilo ebuild install process. I want
>> to check whether blank /etc/mtab is my fault or not.
>
> The installation handbook used to include a command to write /etc/mtab in the
> chroot by grepping the host mtab, but it's been removed and I haven't been
> able to find it. Meanwhile, I think it's standard behaviour for mtab not to be
> populated during the installation process.
>
> So I'd also be interested to hear from anyone who knows what mtab should
> contain.

I symlink "/proc/self/mounts" to "/etc/mtab".

But the handbook has "grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab".