Do you mean to 'touch' everything in /boot?  Yes I added 'notail' to the 
fstab entry.  Should I make /boot ext2?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@...>
To: <gentoo-amd64@g.o>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub


> On Thursday 09 March 2006 09:11, "Gavin" <gavin.m.seddon@...>
> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub':
>> Hi,
>> I reinstalled and the boot partition wont mount.  It is reiser,
>
> Reiser, eh?  Some versions of grub have a problem with reiser's tail
> packing.  Make sure you mount the filesystem notail.  If you aren't
> already doing this, 'touch' all the files on boot once it is mounted
> notail; you could also do this just to be safe.  If you touch all the
> files, particularly the stage files, you should rerun 'grub-install' or go
> through your standard process for installing grub on the MBR.
>
>> boot
>> flag set on hda1.
>
> Grub ignores that anyway.
>
>> However, it boots from grub command line.
>
> Well, make sure your grub.conf / menu.lst file matches the grub command
> line you are giving.  Also, make sure there aren't any stray characters
> (e.g. Ctrl-A or Ctrl-@) in the grub.conf / menu.lst
>
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