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anchorman082589
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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:53 am Post subject: The Case of the Disappearing /boot |
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Hi,
I'm starting a new stage 1 based installation of Gentoo and have finally come to the end, but once again i seem to have encountered a problem. When i run grub i have the following options:
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root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel root=/dev/sda3 init=/linuxrc
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Starts fine. part of the way through starting up i see that none of my kernel modules are able to start. None the less though, i get to the command line and start snooping around. The first thing i see is the my /boot directory is empty, even though the entire system booted off of it. First i try unmounting and remounting the partition to no avail, next i try mounting the partition to a different folder (i picked /mnt/boot) and find that suddenly i see everything in the partition. After seeing this i decided to try deleting /boot, remaking /boot and then mounting the partition to there and surprisingly i find that i can now see everything on the partition. Very happy about this i try restarting my computer only to find that i have the same problem once again. Any ideas why?
thanks in advace,
Dan
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jk3us
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That is strange.... The suggest method of installation (IIRC) says to use the noauto option for /boot in /etc/fstab. If that was done, then it would not mount on boot. But it's strange that if you mount it explictly it doesn't seem to do it. Can we see your /etc/fstab?
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anchorman082589
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The problem was in the fstab that it was set not to mount it by defualt.
Dumb mistake on my part sorry.
But even after that i am still haveing a problem loading any of the kernel modules. I can't tell much about the problem because the error messages go by so fast. Does anybody know why i would be unable to load any of the modules?
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alistair
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:47 am Post subject: |
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what does dmesg say
or /var/log/messages |
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anchorman082589
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:24 am Post subject: |
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| alistair wrote: | what does dmesg say
or /var/log/messages |
Dmseg seems to go right up to where "calculating dependencies" part is, and every other log in the /var/log folder doesn't seem to deal with that area either.
Any other ideas?
Thanks again
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