[nflug] Recursive "/boot" directory

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Mon Dec 5 17:48:03 EST 2005


Are you using partition labels for your mounts? Check to see what's 
actually mounted "df -lh". I've seen problems when I had 2 drives in 
with the same boot label and the system just decided not to mount 
anything at all (with my /boot that is).

Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:

> Everything is there except the grub directory.
> this is the contents of /boot and I see it now. It is a symlink to 
> itself. I wonder what happened to the /boot/grub directory!
>
>     java ~ # ls -al /boot
> total 10154
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     536 Oct 24 02:58 .
> drwxr-xr-x  20 root root     496 Jul 30 10:35 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root       0 Oct 23 00:36 .keep
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      27 Oct 24 02:52 System.map -> 
> System.map-2.6.13-Gentoo-r3
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1143140 May 23  2005 System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r6
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1033899 May 26  2005 System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r9
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1089031 Oct 24 02:38 System.map-2.6.13-gentoo-r3
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       1 Jun 14 11:50 boot -> .
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   32799 May 23  2005 config-2.6.11-gentoo-r6
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   30758 May 26  2005 config-2.6.11-gentoo-r9
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   32828 Oct 24 02:36 config-2.6.13-gentoo-r3
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2512773 May 23  2005 kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2205407 May 26  2005 kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r9
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2285182 Oct 24 02:35 kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      23 Oct 24 02:55 vmlinuz -> 
> kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3
>
> Of course I forgot to turn word wrap off.
> Bob
>
>
> Josh Johnson wrote:
>
>> boot is a symlink to the same directory:
>>
>> ls -l /boot/boot
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 1 Dec  2 06:25 /boot/boot -> .
>>
>> AFAIK its just to make things easier when setting up the (grub) 
>> bootloader, since everything starts as though your /boot partition 
>> was the root directory. That way you can access your kernel by 
>> (hd0,0)/bzImage or (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage. But its weird that 
>> everything else has vanished. If its completely empty except for the 
>> boot/boot symlink, then maybe your boot directory isn't mounted? I 
>> believe that Gentoo puts it in by default.
>>
>> -Josh
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Robert F. Stockdale IV" <javabob at adelphia.net>
>> To: "Niagara Frontier Linux Users Group" <nflug at nflug.org>
>> Subject: [nflug] Recursive "/boot" directory
>> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:14:34 -0500
>>
>>
>>> Don't know what happened. I went to look at my /boot/grub/menu.lst 
>>> file and it couldn't be found. so I cd'd into "/boot" and found 
>>> another "/boot" directory cd'd into that one and found another. It 
>>> just continues and continues like this. The grub directory is not in 
>>> any that I looked at. I think I had gone 9 or 10 deep. All the 
>>> directories are identical. Has anyone seen this before?
>>> I'm running Gentoo Linux (recently updated with --newuse --deep 
>>> flags set). /boot is ext2 as it it small. All other partitions are 
>>> reiserfs.
>>> Any ideas?
>>> Bob
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>>
>>
>>
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