On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/07/2013 09:11 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk >> <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> 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 > <snip> > /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) ,,,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 = 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 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. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
