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From: yac <yac@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "mount" and "cat /etc/mtab" inside install chroot?
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:00:09
Message-Id: 20140421005556.38abbcf2@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "mount" and "cat /etc/mtab" inside install chroot? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:54:07 +0100
2 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 > On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 07:43:18 Walter Dnes wrote:
5 > > I've got another thread going called...
6 > > "Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop". Before
7 > > I file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my fault.
8 > > Can people here do me a favour? If you have a Gentoo install CD or
9 > > USB key handy, and are willing to reboot, can you please do the
10 > > following...
11 > >
12 > > 1) boot from the install ISO
13 > > 2) chroot to a running environment
14 > > 3) list the output from the 2 commands
15 > > mount
16 > > cat /etc/mtab
17 > >
18 > > I'm getting absolutely no output at all from those 2 commands in
19 > > the install chroot. That screws up the lilo ebuild install
20 > > process. I want to check whether blank /etc/mtab is my fault or
21 > > not.
22 >
23 > The installation handbook used to include a command to
24 > write /etc/mtab in the chroot by grepping the host mtab
25
26 It was part of grub-install, now grub legacy
27
28 https://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap4
29
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