Bug 4520 – Add warning for unmounted /boot partition

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Felipe Ghellar 2002-07-04 02:15:45 UTC]

Despite the fact that trey're covered in the FAQ, questions about not being able
to find something under /boot (e.g. bzImage, menu.lst) still pop up every now
and then in the forums.

In a recent thread, a possible "solution" for this appeared:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=6977

What I propose is to change Code listing 14 in the Installation Instructions
(version 1.2 at this moment) to include something along the line of "touch
/mnt/gentoo/boot/BOOT_PARTITION_NOT_MOUNTED", just before "mount /dev/hda1
/mnt/gentoo/boot".

This is not really productive, of course, but it might help reduce the amount of
"Where's my menu.lst?" questions...

Thanks for your attention.

Felipe Ghellar

[Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2002-09-05 23:47:42 UTC]

I added a warning in the 1.4 install guide, it should help some of the hapless
folks ;-)

//ZhEN

[Comment 2 Eric Stockbridge 2002-09-06 18:11:15 UTC]

Created attachment 3709 [details, diff]
made the changes to install doc

let me know if this is acceptible or needs work, or whatever you think

[Comment 3 Felipe Ghellar 2002-09-06 18:37:17 UTC]

Shouldn't the line
+# <i>touch /mnt/gentoo/boot BOOT_PARTITION_NOT_MOUNTED</i>
be
+# <i>touch /mnt/gentoo/boot/BOOT_PARTITION_NOT_MOUNTED</i>
? ;)

[Comment 4 Eric Stockbridge 2002-09-06 19:41:43 UTC]

Created attachment 3712 [details, diff]
sorry fixed that and a stray `

[Comment 5 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2002-09-10 18:07:30 UTC]

Eric,
I am just going to put an entry in the doc, it should keep most people from
having this problem. 

//ZhEN

[Comment 6 Joe Kallar (RETIRED) 2003-06-13 10:30:08 UTC]

Where is this in the current docs? What line?