[nflug] Recursive "/boot" directory

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

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
>>_______________________________________________
>>nflug mailing list
>>nflug at nflug.org
>>http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug
> 
> 
> 
_______________________________________________
nflug mailing list
nflug at nflug.org
http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug