Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Dirk. JBanks --- Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 16. September 2003 04:34 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > > Gentoo doesn't run with the boot partition mounted. I guess it mounts at > > boot time and is then unmounted for safety. > > Why should it be mounted and umounted?

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 16. September 2003 04:34 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Gentoo doesn't run with the boot partition mounted. I guess it mounts at > boot time and is then unmounted for safety. Why should it be mounted and umounted? There is no need to mount /boot unless you want to copy a new kernel to it.

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Chris and Mark. When you do a "etc-update system" what do you usually choose? This is a very confusing area for me and this is where I know that I messed up. I don't really understand what I need to do here even after reading stuff on the Forum the choices still don't make sense. You have

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Chris I
On 2003.09.15 22:29, Joshua Banks wrote: I'm assuming that I can just reconfig /etc/fstab and manually create a grub directory and grub.conf file in that directory? Recreate fstab and mount your /boot partition. Oh,,, when I try and open another shell window and "su" my password keeps on being r

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:29, Joshua Banks wrote: > > What the hell did I do??? > mount /boot Gentoo doesn't run with the boot partition mounted. I guess it mounts at boot time and is then unmounted for safety. If you copied things there, you'll need to move them somewhere else so that the dir

[gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Ok... I just upgraded KDE to 3.1.3 stable finally... I went to load the new kernel. I was running 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 and upgraded to 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 These are the steps that I took as root. 1> cd /usr/src 2> dir linux linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 3> rm linux 4> ln -s linux-