Re: /boot

[Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:55:41AM -0500, Harry Cochran wrote:
> Done. And it boots 2.6.8-2-32-smp!

good. Now you know what to write up :^)

> >If that boots, then:
> >o unmount /boot
> 
> No ... umount /boot or umount -f /boot comes back with:
> "device is busy"

Sounds like sda1 did not get mounted as /boot
Does "mount" list /boot?

> Is there a problem leaving the redundant /boot on sda3?

Only that it might cause confusion later.

> SinoHub5:/# fdisk -l /dev/sda
...

Good

...
> SinoHub5:/# mount
> /dev/sda3 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/sdb1 on /var type ext3 (rw)

Good 

> SinoHub5:/# cat /etc/palo.conf

Good

> SinoHub5:/# ls -l /boot
> total 0

Not Good. vmlinux/initrd symlinks and *-2.6.8.1-2-* files should
be here.

> >The "ls" command assumes the f0 partition is mounted on /boot.
> 
> Well I was feeling pretty good until I saw ls -l /boot come back with total
> 0. I assume that's bad news.

Right.

>  You didn't say to change init-partitioned to
> update-partitioned, so maybe I screwed up there. Should I have just gotten
> rid of that line?

No - you've already run "palo --init-partition" once and that's sufficient.

The vmlinux/initrd didn't get copied to sda1 when it was mounted
as /mnt. umount sda1 by hand and "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" so you can
clone the original contents of /boot (sda3) to /mnt (sda1).


> Thanks again Grant. This is very close now. I just need one more push to
> complete. I hope you have time to reply today.

For some definition of today :^)

welcome,
grant