OK so wait - you say to NOT have /boot mounted during "normal" use. Does "normal" use include compiling a new kernel? In other words.. do I mount /boot when I run genkernel?? And by watching the genkernel output doesnt it just basically DO the same things as the "old-fashioned way" ?
And /boot is in my fstab.. but either way.. does that really matter? The worst that would happen is grub SHOULD normally start it just wouldnt boot up correctly. Grub is whats in the MBR and what should be found when the systems starts right? Getting an "Operating system not found" error to me sounds like it cant find grub. Just an observation.. I may be wrong.. but this is still driving me nuts. - Brent > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:00, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Gentoo suggests that you normally NOT have /boot mounted > during normal > > use. If it's not, when you copy your new kernel image to /boot, it > > will fail. In my case, I don't use 'genkernel', but compile > mine the > > old-fashioned way. Lastly, I run 'make install'. This does various > > things, one of which is to copy the appropriate files to > /boot, make > > symlinks for System.map, and so on. I noticed one time when > /boot was > > NOT mounted, that the 'make install' command did NOT complain or > > "fail". > > This is handled by genkernel as long as /boot is in your > fstab. In the compile function it runs: "mount /boot > > /dev/null 2>&1" . > > Doug > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
