[gentoo-user] Re: grub installation problem
Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr writes: Hi all, I am installing Gentoo on a new pc and following the Gentoo manual. I create primary partition sda3 for boot with ext3 file system, then Extended partition for swap sda5 / sda6 with reiserfs file system /usr sda7 with reiserfs file system /home sda8 with reiserfs fiel system. after chroot, i can install every package except grub in /boot. I get the message : your boot partition, detected as being mounted as /boot, is read-only. Remounting it in read-write mode ... Then the error message : failed to create symbolic link `//boot/boot` : Read-only file system. What's going on ??? I would check if there is any error or warning in the kernel log when that happens. just do dmesg | tail after the error, to check the last lines in the log. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub installation problem
Le 12/01/2011 20:07, Nuno J. Silva a écrit : Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr writes: Hi all, I am installing Gentoo on a new pc and following the Gentoo manual. I create primary partition sda3 for boot with ext3 file system, then Extended partition for swap sda5 / sda6 with reiserfs file system /usr sda7 with reiserfs file system /home sda8 with reiserfs fiel system. after chroot, i can install every package except grub in /boot. I get the message : your boot partition, detected as being mounted as /boot, is read-only. Remounting it in read-write mode ... Then the error message : failed to create symbolic link `//boot/boot` : Read-only file system. What's going on ??? I would check if there is any error or warning in the kernel log when that happens. just do dmesg | tail after the error, to check the last lines in the log. Ther is no error message : just the lines EXT3-fs (sda3): using internal journal I see some warning about to avoid automounting and auto-installing with /boot, just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable How can i do that ? Thanks Jacques
[gentoo-user] Re: grub installation problem
Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr writes: Le 12/01/2011 20:07, Nuno J. Silva a écrit : Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr writes: Hi all, I am installing Gentoo on a new pc and following the Gentoo manual. I create primary partition sda3 for boot with ext3 file system, then Extended partition for swap sda5 / sda6 with reiserfs file system /usr sda7 with reiserfs file system /home sda8 with reiserfs fiel system. after chroot, i can install every package except grub in /boot. I get the message : your boot partition, detected as being mounted as /boot, is read-only. Remounting it in read-write mode ... Then the error message : failed to create symbolic link `//boot/boot` : Read-only file system. What's going on ??? I would check if there is any error or warning in the kernel log when that happens. just do dmesg | tail after the error, to check the last lines in the log. Ther is no error message : just the lines EXT3-fs (sda3): using internal journal So there is no filesystem issue. Errors sometimes result in the partition being remounted readonly. Stroller has a point, read his post. As the mounted partitions list is inside /proc, if you forgot to mount that, then maybe the ebuild can't just find out /boot is actually mounted. There are probably other things that might not work if you don't mount these partitions, so just to be sure, check if you did that :-) I see some warning about to avoid automounting and auto-installing with /boot, just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable How can i do that ? writing (and executing) export DONT_MOUNT_BOOT in the shell should be enough. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
