stage 1 tarball problems

oblique effect · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 4

Here's the deal, I have set up everything up until untarring the stage 1 tarball. my /mnt/gentoo/boot dir has everything it should. Then when I run tar -xvjpf stage1.4***.tar.bz2 I end up having an infinite number of /mnt/gentoo/boot (ie /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot... etc). I've tried using the stage 1 included on the live cd, as well as downloaded the one off the internet. But both are the same tarball. I've tried this more than a few times and always the same result, any thoughts other than starting with a stage 2?

oblique effect

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

It is a symlink. Remove it by rm -f /boot/boot

Or, you can just leave it be. It is merely a symlink that points back at it's parent directory. /boot/boot -> /boot

reves · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 5:04 pm Post subject:

With 1.2 I always end up with a /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot and I just run 'rm -rf /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot'. You could probably do the same.
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rac · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:37 pm Post subject:

It's there for a reason. It makes it so that the build guide can suggest you use /boot in a path passed to GRUB, regardless of whether or not /boot is a separate partition. If you remove it, you have to take /boot out of the GRUB paths if /boot is a separate partition.
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