Re: Kernel recompile has left /boot empty

From: Matt Bostock (matt_at_mattbostock.com)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:09:48 -0000

See below...

Matt 

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"Brian Reiahle" <reply@the.newsgroup> wrote in message
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>
> so /boot is a separate partition, yes?
I'm not really sure now. Sorry for my ignorance... please see the end of my
post, I've included /etc/fstab and mount's output.
> shouldn't there also be a boot/lost+found directory there if /boot
> mounted successfully. ext2/3 file systems usually (always?) have a
> directory called lost+found in there file system root.
>
> # du boot -h
> 12k     boot/lost+found
> 5.1M    boot
There's a lost+found in the file system root, i.e. /lost+found, but it
doesn't contain the word 'boot' in its name.
> Matt Bostock also wrote in another post:
>
>  > PS Please note that when I rebooted the system after testing the new
>  > kernel, the boot dir was normal again. It's only when I'm running the
>  > new kernel that I have the problem.
>  >
>  > Matt
"Brian Reiahle" <reply@the.newsgroup> wrote in message
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> it's possible for a real file to be in /boot (on the / partition) and
> then mount another partition over top of it thus hiding what was there.
>
> mounting /boot can fail for a number of reasons and is the only thing I
> can think of that would explain it ... unless you happen to be
> duel-booting with another unix-like os and got a wrong partition
> somewhere? but a mount failure sounds the most likely at the moment.
>
> what dose mount say?
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,usrquota,grpquota)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
That doesn't look right to me... anyone else?
I have 2 80GB drives.
/etc/fstab contains:
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3
defaults,usrquota,grpquota      1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda2               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdb1               /backup                 ext3    defaults        0 0
I tried running 'mount boot' and got the following:
mount: fs type ext3 not supported by kernel
Is that my problem? Did I not enable something I should have done in the
kernel recompile config?
Thanks again,
Matt
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