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On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 07:43:18 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> I've got another thread going called... |
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>> "Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop". Before I |
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>> file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my fault. Can |
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>> people here do me a favour? If you have a Gentoo install CD or USB key |
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>> handy, and are willing to reboot, can you please do the following... |
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>> |
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>> 1) boot from the install ISO |
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>> 2) chroot to a running environment |
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>> 3) list the output from the 2 commands |
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>> mount |
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>> cat /etc/mtab |
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>> I'm getting absolutely no output at all from those 2 commands in the |
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>> install chroot. That screws up the lilo ebuild install process. I want |
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>> to check whether blank /etc/mtab is my fault or not. |
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> The installation handbook used to include a command to write /etc/mtab in the |
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> chroot by grepping the host mtab, but it's been removed and I haven't been |
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> able to find it. Meanwhile, I think it's standard behaviour for mtab not to be |
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> populated during the installation process. |
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> So I'd also be interested to hear from anyone who knows what mtab should |
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> contain. |
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I symlink "/proc/self/mounts" to "/etc/mtab". |
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But the handbook has "grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab". |
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