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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] system boot
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:25:46
Message-Id: 1140999042.10884.38.camel@orpheus
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] system boot by Pete
1 Hi,
2
3 On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 23:51 +0000, Pete wrote:
4 > This is what I don't understand
5 >
6 > ------------------
7 >
8 > yababa root # ls -l /boot/
9 > total 1272
10 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483904 Feb 26 04:56 System.map-2.4.19r10AR
11 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 12 2003 boot -> .
12 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 814688 Feb 26 04:40 bzImageAR
13 > yababa root #
14 >
15 > ---------------------
16 >
17 > boot points to itself. Before I copied the System.map-2.4.19r10AR and
18 > bzImageAR, there was nothing in there.
19 >
20 > How does the system boot? ? ?
21
22 you need to mount /boot. Before you do that, delete (or move) the files
23 that you put in (the unmounted) /boot! /boot isn't mounted by default.
24
25 Once you've mounted /boot, you should see lots of stuff in there.
26
27 HTH,
28 --
29 Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au>
30
31 If it happens once, it's a bug.
32 If it happens twice, it's a feature.
33 If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy.
34
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