Cannot automatically mount your /boot partition

lmellen

I finally had gentoo up and running, decided I didn't like the way it was installed, wanted to try a few different things, formatted the HD- started to reinstall-and now I'm getting this error from emerge -k grub:

Cannot automatically mount your boot partition
Your boot partition has to be mounted rw before the installation
Can continue, grub needs to install important files there

Error: sys-boot/grub-0.94-r1 failed
Function mount-boot_mount_boot_partition, Line53, Exitcode 0
Please mount your /boot partition manually

Failed preinst: 1

ls -l /boot gives me:

May 6 16:43 boot ->
May 6 18:07 initrd-2.6.5-gentoo-r1
May 6 17:52 kernel-2.6.5-gentoo-r1
May 6 16:26 lost+found

I used ext2 for boot and reiserfs for root. The only thing I compiled in the kernel was reiserfs filesystem help and the ati video card stuff as modules.
I used genkernel
Like I said, I had the system up before. It seems like this just started? Am I leaving something out? I did uncomment the floppy in fstab, that would'nt cause any problems, would it? I could use some help. Thank you-Larry. Also, I thought I did something wrong the first time, but this is the third reinstall attempt. I get the same error everytime.

daveb · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 2:33 am Post subject:

Make sure you

lmellen · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 2:42 am Post subject:

daveb-- if I type mount /boot, hit enter, I get:

mount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /boot busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda1 is already mounted on /boot

daveb · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 2:55 am Post subject:

Hmmm, well it sounds like /boot is mounted. I found someone with a similar-sounding problem in this thread. See if that helps.
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BCC · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 51

Hi,

Maybe your /boot partition is mounted "read-only" ?
In such a case, you could try :

thorne · Apprentice Joined: 19 Sep 2002 Posts: 177

Hi, the solution for me was to unmount boot. When you emerge grub, the script automatically mounts boot. Perhaps there is an error in the script where it checks to see if /boot is already mounted?
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pingvinen · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject: i did

I exited the chroot env. and remounted the boot
and the grub worked

thanks
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