On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:00, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Gentoo suggests that you normally NOT have /boot mounted during normal > use. If it's not, when you copy your new kernel image to /boot, it will > fail. In my case, I don't use 'genkernel', but compile mine the > old-fashioned way. Lastly, I run 'make install'. This does various > things, one of which is to copy the appropriate files to /boot, make > symlinks for System.map, and so on. I noticed one time when /boot was > NOT mounted, that the 'make install' command did NOT complain or "fail".
This is handled by genkernel as long as /boot is in your fstab. In the compile function it runs: "mount /boot > /dev/null 2>&1" . Doug -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list