Jacques Montier <[email protected]> writes: > Le 12/01/2011 20:07, Nuno J. Silva a écrit : >> Jacques Montier <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am installing Gentoo on a new pc and following the Gentoo manual. >>> I create primary partition sda3 for boot with ext3 file system, then >>> Extended partition for >>> swap sda5 >>> / sda6 with reiserfs file system >>> /usr sda7 with reiserfs file system >>> /home sda8 with reiserfs fiel system. >>> >>> after chroot, i can install every package except grub in /boot. >>> I get the message : "your boot partition, detected as being mounted as >>> /boot, is read-only. >>> Remounting it in read-write mode ..." >>> Then the error message : "failed to create symbolic link `//boot/boot` : >>> Read-only file system. >>> >>> What's going on ??? >> I would check if there is any error or warning in the kernel log when >> that happens. >> >> just do >> dmesg | tail >> >> after the error, to check the last lines in the log. >> > Ther is no error message : just the lines > EXT3-fs (sda3): using internal journal
So there is no filesystem issue. Errors sometimes result in the partition being remounted readonly. Stroller has a point, read his post. As the mounted partitions list is inside /proc, if you forgot to mount that, then maybe the ebuild can't just find out /boot is actually mounted. There are probably other things that might not work if you don't mount these partitions, so just to be sure, check if you did that :-) > I see some warning about "to avoid automounting and auto-installing with > /boot, > just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable" > > How can i do that ? writing (and executing) export DONT_MOUNT_BOOT in the shell should be enough. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
