n00b install question

ragnarr · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

I just recently installed gentoo, got gnome running, everything seems to work fine, but something I noticed today, there is nothing inside my /boot directory. Which is were I created grub.conf, and where the kernel is supposed to be (as far as I understand).

Despite this, gentoo works really well, so my question is: Is this a problem that I should be worried about, Im fairly new to linux and still learning the basics. This just seems odd to me. If anybody has any input please let me know. If you need outputs from any files or commands to understand this let me know as well and I will provide them.

Im really surprised that grub comes up still at boot, and everything seems to work good.

d9f61 · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject:

This is probably because your /boot is a seperate partition and isn't mounted. You can mount it if you want with

ragnarr · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

ok, I found the problem, I made a slight mistake in fstab by putting noauto in the /boot line. Anyhow I think I'll just leave it that way and mount it manually when I need to use it.

Thanks alot for your help

lwithers · Guru Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 300 Location: Reading, UK

Actually, you're supposed to have noauto in there :-)

The idea is that this way, you can't accidentally erase or overwrite your kernel.

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

if you have /boot mounted automatically and your system crashes you kernel source in /boot can get corrupted

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