On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, H.S. wrote:
> Mike S wrote:
> > Did you mount /boot first?
>
> umm, no, I don't recall so. I jotted down the steps I took and mounting
> /boot doesn't appear in those. My method worked properly on a laptop
*you* do NOT ( manually ) mount /boot or / or /usr or /var or /tmp or
any other partition or directories
*the boot kernel* will mount what it needs when its ready to do
so by looking at the entries in /etc/fstab
/boot as a partition is NOT required on most machines if its
bios can handle booting from above 1024 cylinders
- or boot from floppy or cdrom or usb or network to avoid the
problem
if /boot is NOT defined in /etc/fstab, and you put your vmlinuz-2.6.x
kernel in /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.x, than your system will not boot properly
---- trick question ---- for more thinking about how it boots ----
if /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.x is what you want to boot, but /boot needs
to be mounted by vmlinuz-2.6.x, trick is which comes first ??
- the boot loader ( lilo, grub, loadlin, .. ) and boot sequence
"magically" figures it out for you before it turns control over
to avoid this silly catch-22
- this silly catch-22 is part of why grub needs to have its silly
stage-1.5 filesystem dependent files for ext3 or xfs or reiserfs
c ya
alvin
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