While autoinstalling I had a problem with my /boot partition not getting a 
filesystem installed on it if the fstab on the golden-client had "noauto" as 
an option.  I could see in the master script that the partition was made but 
there was no call to mke2fs. The install would of course fail.  I removed the 
noauto and (after another 'getimage') the script had the required mke2fs 
call. Good.

Now however, the auto install fails right at the end with:

umount /a/boot || shellout
umount: /a/boot: Invalid argument

/proc/mounts gives:

/dev/hda1  /a/boot  ext2...
/dev/hda3  /a         ext3...

so /dev/hda1 is mounted on /a/boot but looking at the master script /dev/hda3 
is mounted on /a which masks the mount of /dev/hda1 completely.  All writes 
to /a/boot actually went onto /dev/hda3.

I could successfully umount /a which 'revealed' /dev/hda1 on /a/boot, but of 
course it had nothing in it.

If I reboot after this error the system boots OK, /dev/hda1 is mounted 
on /boot and /dev/hda3 is mounted on /, if fact everything seems fine except 
that there is nothing but lost+found in /boot!

The golden client is correct with the boot things (kernel etc) in /boot where 
they should be.

Should I worry?  I'd like to able to use any installed client as a golden 
client in the future. I'm not sure what the repercussions of that might be.

thanks
Murray


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