[gentoo-user] mtab vs grub-install

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Hello,

I have installed 6 different Gentoo systems, all stage one without 
difficulty. However, I decide to install via a stage one install
on a pentiumPro-200MHz. After a few days of compiling it works fine
except for  a boot-mounting problem. Basically, the /dev/hda1 as /boot
is not getting mounted automatically upon boot

/etc/fstab:
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         noauto,ro       0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto          0 0
proc                    /proc           proc            defaults        0 0shm 
           /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0
/dev/hda1               /boot           ext3         noatime,notail  1 2
/dev/hda2               none            swap            sw              0 0

cat /proc/mounts upon reboot:
cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0

cat /etc/mtab:
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=85 0 0

So I manually mount /boot: mount /dev/hda1 /boot

and now they look fine(?)
cat /etc/mtab
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=85 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0

 cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0

so I re-run 'grub-install /dev/hda'

but I get the same proble, /boot is not mounted upon reboot.

Ideas on fixing this?

James




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