grub should not mount any partitions inside a chroot during an install. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. setup a chroot and emerge grub with an fstab setup 2. 3. Actual Results: boot partition is mounted when it should not be. <robbat2> i try not to touch grub, but I do know enough about it's internals <robbat2> it's been a couple of years since I made any commits to the main tree sys-boot/grub anyway <__Tired__> there is a bug I want to know if you all want a bug or if it will be closed invalid <__Tired__> when doing up a tarball for a reinstall on a running system if /etc/fstab exists in the chroot it mounts a partition which in turn causes the files to never be installed properly on /boot which is not mounted <robbat2> what mounts that partition? <__Tired__> from a quick glance it appears to be the ebuild <robbat2> hmm, i see why <robbat2> not sure why you bugged me about it tho <robbat2> file a bug for base-system <__Tired__> your in the herd that maintains it :-b <__Tired__> thanks will do <robbat2> stating that their needs to be a way to disable the mount-boot eclass <robbat2> inside chroots
there really is no way at all to address this ... plus, you cant blanket say "no mounting in chroots" as there are scenarios where you want /boot mounted in chroot i dont see the real issue here ... try to describe it more clearly as to what your problem is
If you are building a chroot to tar up and send to another system, and you do 'emerge grub' inside the chroot, it mounts the real /boot on your system, and installs grub into that, instead of the chroot's /boot. I think maybe solvable with a special ENV var, similar to genkernel's usage. DONT_MOUNT_BOOT=1 emerge grub
obscure env var that people wont notice ? works for me ;) added to the tree, cheers
If doing an chroot setup on an already running system I do not want boot mounted via an ebuild. This is not proper for the chroot enviroment. Any partition that is or should be mounted should be done outside the chroot.
Robin just told you how to do that: DONT_MOUNT_BOOT=1 emerge grub
