Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 July 2009 02:27:09 Alan E. Davis wrote: I live on a tropical island. I've been going through about all the suggestions people have made and all the ideas I can think of. I have an ancient laptop here that used to lock up in the middle of large compilations, and eventually I

[gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/11/2009 08:08 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan E. Davis writes: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as /dev/sda5. That is where I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:33:36 -0700, walt wrote: My USB stick, e.g. shows up in grub as (hd2). Now, I can't possibly think straight enough to know in advance that the USB stick is (hd2), so what I do every time is to use this trick from the grub prompt: grub root (hdnow I hit TAB for a list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thanks to everyone. I feel like this was so easy, how could I have been confused? But I was. Somehow, I was lost for weeks between the ways that Ubuntu and Gentoo handle grub---and I was trying to install unstable ubuntu with grub 2, so that may explain some of it, but not all, surely. I used

[gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-10 Thread walt
On 07/10/2009 05:16 PM, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: I recently reported that I am suffering random reboots. I have now discovered an inconsistency in the reporting of the mount point of the root directory of my Gentoo install... No, the two are not related. In my experience, anything that goes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you, Walt. I live on a tropical island. I've been going through about all the suggestions people have made and all the ideas I can think of. Changed NICs. Recompiled kernel with better configuration. Uptime 1:39 An improvement from earlier today. I've edited /etc/fstab. But I'll leave

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-10 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: Thank you, Walt. I live on a tropical island. I've been going through about all the suggestions people have made and all the ideas I can think of. Changed NICs. Recompiled kernel with better configuration. Uptime 1:39 An improvement from earlier today. I've edited