On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:24:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote
> I symlink "/proc/self/mounts" to "/etc/mtab".
>
> But the handbook has "grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab".
I re-checked the AMD64 install docs in Firefox "{CTRL}F" "mtab" in...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1
The ***Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install*** section has...
> Code Listing 4.5: Creating /etc/mtab
>
> # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
The lilo install does not have these instructions, neither does grub-2,
just legacy grub. I've installed Gentoo with lilo a lot of times over
the past several years (since November 2004), and I have never had to
tweak /etc/mtab. This implies one of...
* either the behaviour of /etc/mtab has changed.
* or grepping "mount" output is a recent "new and improved feature" of
the lilo ebuild.
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