Duh ! I didn't notice this. I am working on gentoo for the first time and the other flavor has /boot auto mounted.
Thanks a ton ! Regards Pete On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:40:42 +0930, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Hi, > > On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 23:51 +0000, Pete wrote: > > This is what I don't understand > > > > ------------------ > > > > yababa root # ls -l /boot/ > > total 1272 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483904 Feb 26 04:56 System.map-2.4.19r10AR > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 12 2003 boot -> . > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 814688 Feb 26 04:40 bzImageAR > > yababa root # > > > > --------------------- > > > > boot points to itself. Before I copied the System.map-2.4.19r10AR and > > bzImageAR, there was nothing in there. > > > > How does the system boot? ? ? > > you need to mount /boot. Before you do that, delete (or move) the files > that you put in (the unmounted) /boot! /boot isn't mounted by default. > > Once you've mounted /boot, you should see lots of stuff in there. > > HTH, > -- > Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> > > If it happens once, it's a bug. > If it happens twice, it's a feature. > If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
