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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub installation problem
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:00:36
Message-Id: 4D2ECCEF.8010703@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] grub installation problem by Jacques Montier
1 Jacques Montier wrote:
2 >
3 > What i did this morning :
4 > - boot from a sysrescuecd cdrom.
5 >
6 > I have 4 partitions for boot, /, usr and home, so :
7 > - mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/gentoo
8 > - mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo/boot
9 > - mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/gentoo/usr
10 > - mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/gentoo/home
11 > - mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
12 > - mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
13 > - cd /mnt/gentoo
14 > - chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
15 > - emerge grub
16 >
17 > So grub-0.97-r10 is installed, but grub can't create grub directory
18 > beause of read-only boot partition...
19 >
20 >
21 > I tried
22 >
23 > - export DONT_MOUNT_BOOT
24 > - emerge grub
25 >
26 > But no success...
27 >
28 > --
29 > Jacques
30 >
31 >
32
33 Try typing in mount with no options and see what it says. Does it say
34 it is mounted (rw) or (ro)? Does the file system match what you
35 formatted it with?
36
37 Dale
38
39 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub installation problem Jacques Montier <jacques.montier@×××××××××××.fr>