Bug 104019

Summary:	GRUB won't install if /boot is not on a seperate partition
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	MAL <mal>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description MAL 2005-08-28 04:33:58 UTC

I'm building Gentoo from stage2 in a directory on a workig gentoo machine, to
copy to the target disk when done.  I have therefore not got any partitions yet.

It's all gone fine until I got to emerging grub:

>>> Merging sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2 to /
 * 
 * Cannot automatically mount your /boot partition.
 * Your boot partition has to be mounted rw before the installation
 * can continue. grub needs to install important files there.
 * 

!!! ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2 failed.
!!! Function mount-boot_mount_boot_partition, Line 51, Exitcode 0
!!! Please mount your /boot partition manually!
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

!!! FAILED preinst: 1


Amusingly, this was seen before a long time ago in bug 527 and was fixed.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-08-28 09:55:19 UTC

you should have your disk partitioned and /etc/fstab setup before starting the
bootstrap

Comment 2 MAL 2005-08-29 02:27:37 UTC

Should, but didn't because I wasn't building that way.

Has support for building on another machine been completely dropped then?