--- mount-boot.eclass.orig	Mon Sep 23 16:00:54 2002
+++ mount-boot.eclass	Mon Sep 23 16:08:06 2002
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2000 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
-# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/mount-boot.eclass,v 1.2 2002/09/22 21:02:08 woodchip Exp $
+# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/mount-boot.eclass,v 1.1 2002/09/20 18:38:22 woodchip Exp $
 
 ECLASS=mount-boot
 INHERITED="$INHERITED $ECLASS"
@@ -11,37 +11,40 @@
 
 	local fstabstate="$(cat /etc/fstab | awk '!/^#|^[[:blank:]]+#/ {print $2}' | egrep "/boot" )"
 	local procstate="$(cat /proc/mounts | awk '{print $2}' | egrep "/boot" )"
+	local proc_ro="$(cat /proc/mounts | awk '{ print $2, $4 }' | sed -n '/\/boot/{ /[ ,]\?ro[ ,]\?/p }' )"
 
 	if [ -n "${fstabstate}" ] && [ -n "${procstate}" ]; then
-		if [ -n "`cat /proc/mounts | awk '{ print $2, $4 }' | sed -n '/\/boot/{ /[ ,]ro/p }'`" ]; then
+		if [ -n "${proc_ro}" ]; then
+			echo
 			einfo "Your boot partition, detected as being mounted as /boot, is read-only"
 			einfo "Remounting it in read-write mode"
-			sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"
+			sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 1; echo -e "\a"
 			mount -o remount,rw /boot &>/dev/null
 			if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
 				eerror; eerror "Unable to remount in rw mode. Please do it manually" ; eerror
-				sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"
+				sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 1; echo -e "\a"
 				die "Can't remount in rw mode. Please do it manually"
 			fi
 		else
 			echo
 			einfo "Your boot partition was detected as being mounted as /boot."
 			einfo "Files will be installed there for ${PN} to function correctly."
-			sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"
+			sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 1; echo -e "\a"
 		fi
 	elif [ -n "${fstabstate}" ] && [ -z "${procstate}" ]; then
-		mount /boot &>/dev/null
+		mount /boot -o rw &>/dev/null
 		if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
 			echo
-			einfo "Your boot partition was not mounted as /boot, but portage was able to mount"
-			einfo "it without additional intervention."
+			einfo "Your boot partition was not mounted as /boot, but portage"
+			einfo "was able to mount it without additional intervention."
 			einfo "Files will be installed there for ${PN} to function correctly."
-			sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"
+			sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 1; echo -e "\a"
 		else
 			echo
+			eerror "Cannot mount automatically your boot partition."
 			eerror "Your boot partition has to be mounted on /boot before the installation"
 			eerror "can continue. ${PN} needs to install important files there."
-			sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"
+			sleep 1; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 1; echo -e "\a"
 			die "Please mount your /boot partition."
 		fi
 	else