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spiceweasel
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 Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:16 am Post subject: Boot Directory is empty |
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I did a stage 2 install, thought I followed the instructions pretty clearly. Now when I boot, I have no network connection, and when I "ls /boot" it's empty.
There do not seem to be any errors in the bootsplash.
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/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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Also when I 'ls /mnt', all I get back is "floppy" which is weird because I have no floppy drive.
Can anyone help me out?
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gyratedotorg
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:20 am Post subject: |
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maybe your boot partition isnt mounted?
try typing 'mount /boot'' |
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spiceweasel
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:11 am Post subject: |
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thanks. Now boot shows up.
I guess I assumed boot would be mounted. Why would it be left out? How do I make it automatic?
Also, why would the floppy be mounted?
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spiceweasel
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| I just figured out the noauto/auto thing so now my boot and cdrom are automatic. |
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gyratedotorg
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| ah ha. i was actually having the same issue with /boot. thanks =) |
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Mayhem
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 9:00 am Post subject: |
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| spiceweasel wrote: | | I just figured out the noauto/auto thing so now my boot and cdrom are automatic. |
I would advise you not to do that. Only mount your boot partition when you need to work on it. This will prevent you or anyone else from corrupting it.
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rewt
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| Mayhem wrote: | | spiceweasel wrote: | | I just figured out the noauto/auto thing so now my boot and cdrom are automatic. |
I would advise you not to do that. Only mount your boot partition when you need to work on it. This will prevent you or anyone else from corrupting it. |
I'd second that advice. Bit too dangerous that someone might accidentally trash something there and there is always the chance a powerfailure will render it corrupt (pessimist? Me? 
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luqas
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:36 am Post subject: |
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| rewt wrote: |
I'd second that advice. Bit too dangerous that someone might accidentally trash something there and there is always the chance a powerfailure will render it corrupt (pessimist? Me? |
Well add antoher pessimist. I agree that you should leave the boot not to mount automatically. It doesn't take but 1 second to mount. Just make sure after you are done with it, do a umount /boot to unmount it. |
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michaelb
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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Another vote for leaving /boot unmounted.
As for your question about /mnt/floppy, thats just a mount point, it doesn't mean there's anything currently mounted there.
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