Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:why do you use "/boot/boot/grub/" and not the default "/boot/grub/"? what is in /boot/grub/menu.lst vs /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst ?Using /boot/boot/grub is necessary when /boot is its own filesystem. Regards, -Roberto
Not so. My setup is: $ uname -r 2.6.18-3-686 $ mount|grep boot /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) $ ls /boot/*2.6.18-3-686* /boot/System.map-2.6.18-3-686 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686 /boot/config-2.6.18-3-686 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 $grep boot /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2 My /boot/grub/menu.lst for the default boot: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-686 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 root=LABEL=/root ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686 ===NOTE that the path names for the kernel and initrd image DO NOT have a leading '/boot', this is because, for the filesystem on /dev/sda1, these files are 'connected' to the filesystem's 'root', which ONLY becomes /boot/... when the system is up and running, with filesystems from the fstab file mounted.
The above was set up automatically, during the install, by the Debian installer. I explicitly selected to have '/boot' be a separate file system. I suspect the OP's problem is, in fact, because of the differences between what the actual setup is and what the dpkg scripts expect. I further conjecture that the original install was with /boot on the root filesystem, and that a later decision was made to change it, with the boot files on a separate filesystem.
To fix this, as root: # cd /boot/boot # mv * .. # no hidden files to worry about. # cd .. # rmdir boot # edit /etc/fstab - add/modify line to mount the boot partition, see above example # edit grub/menu.lst - to fix any kernel/initrd paths, removing /boot, see above example # reboot ... # apt-get update ....Of course, you should make backups of everything, just in case. And, rather than just removing the extra 'boot' directory, you might also want to do 'ln -s . boot', so if there are any residual dependencies on /boot/boot/..., they will automatically resolve to the right place.
Bob
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