On 5/17/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This has gotta be the problem. Or most of it. I've been going along all this time separately mounting a /boot partition, formatted ext2 and a root partitiion, formatted reiserfs which already has a "boot" dir attached. Is that the one that actually boots? Is it even a problem? How did it get there? Better yet, how do I explain this to the bug folks?
Yes, this is almost certainly the problem. Regarding the issue of which one boots, it is a bit of a difficult question to answer. Since you do not have a /boot/grub directory on your root filesystem, I am going to assume that grub is not looking at the files on on your root filesystem for it's configuration. By this I mean that grub needs a grub.conf or menu.lst file to tell it what boot options to present, and since you seem to have only one of those (in the /grub directory on your /boot filesystem), it must be looking at that one. Now if you use root(hd0,1) in your grub.conf file, then you are using the files on /dev/sda2. If it shows root(hd0,6), then you are trying to boot from files on /dev/sda7. But actually you don't need to specify a root, you could just as easily list your kernel as (hd0,1)/vmlinuz, so check for that as well. What really disturbs me about what you have just posted though is that the root filesystem's /boot directory was updated recently (May 9th). This tells me that in some cases you are installing kernels without /boot mounted (I think I asked this as a 'stupid question' before...), and in other cases are doing it correctly with /boot mounted. So here is what I would suggest. Since you seem to like using 'vmlinuz' as the name of your kernel, you can create an empty, immutable vmlinuz file in the root filesystem's /boot/. This will give you an error if you ever try to overwrite it with a new kernel. This should work: umount /boot rm /boot/vmlinuz touch /boot/vmlinuz chattr +i /boot/vmlinuz mount /boot If you ever try to overwrite the root filesystem's vmlinuz again, you will get "Permission denied". Example: carcharias rjf # cp -v /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-suspend2-r5/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16-suspend2-r5/arch/i386/boot/bzImage' -> `/boot/vmlinuz' cp: cannot create regular file `/boot/vmlinuz': Permission denied Can you please post your /boot/grub/grub.conf. If you have posted this before, I apologize, but I can't seem to find it in the previous threads. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
