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On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:24:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote |
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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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I re-checked the AMD64 install docs in Firefox "{CTRL}F" "mtab" in... |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1 |
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The ***Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install*** section has... |
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> Code Listing 4.5: Creating /etc/mtab |
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> # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab |
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The lilo install does not have these instructions, neither does grub-2, |
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just legacy grub. I've installed Gentoo with lilo a lot of times over |
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the past several years (since November 2004), and I have never had to |
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tweak /etc/mtab. This implies one of... |
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* either the behaviour of /etc/mtab has changed. |
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* or grepping "mount" output is a recent "new and improved feature" of |
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the lilo ebuild. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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