Bug 440380 – sys-boot/lilo: unmerging when /boot isn't mounted cleans /boot

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Edward Dorosz 2012-10-31 08:17:11 UTC]

I was changing from lilo-22.8-r2 to grub-0.97-r12 on three of my amd64 gentoos. 

First I emerged grub and then I unmerged lilo

When I did "emerge --unmerge lilo && emerge --depclean" and wanted to configure /boot/grub/grub.conf, I noticed that /boot was gone.

I have only one x86 gentoo and this one did not have this behaviour.

I've set the bug to "trivial" because I didn't have /boot mounted when I unmerged lilo so just creating the /boot folder and remounting was all I needed to do.

If you need more information, don't hesitate to ask.

Greetings,

Edward Dorosz

[Comment 1 Eric F. GARIOUD 2012-10-31 09:06:57 UTC]

I cannot confirm this.
Hadn't you any .keep file in /boot ?

[Comment 2 Edward Dorosz 2012-10-31 09:47:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I cannot confirm this.
> Hadn't you any .keep file in /boot ?

I just checked and there are 2 .keep files:

.keep
.keep_sys-boot_lilo-0

But only when my boot partition is mounted.

/boot was never mounted when I unmerged lilo so there weren't any .keep files when unmerging.

[Comment 3 Eric F. GARIOUD 2012-10-31 11:20:17 UTC]

Understand. So it removes the mountpoint.
I can confirm.

[Comment 4 Sergey Popov 2012-10-31 12:05:20 UTC]

I do not think that this is amd64-specific problem

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2012-11-01 22:01:51 UTC]

well, you shouldn't be mounting paths, installing packages on top of them, and then unmounting & unmerging.  that's a really bad idea in general.

in this case with lilo, i don't think we need the `keepdir /boot`.  we can let the pkg_postinst code run `mkdir -p /boot`.

[Comment 6 Edward Dorosz 2012-11-02 08:21:22 UTC]

I understand why it isn't a good idea. I've reread my first post and it wasn't very clear. How I explained it, it says:

1. mount /boot
2. emerge grub
3. unmount /boot
4. unmerge lilo

But what I did was:

1. mount /boot
2. emerge grub
3. configure grub + grub-install
4. reboot to see if everything was OK
5. unmerge lilo

After that, I wanted to continue configuring grub for the fancy eyecandy at boot but the mount point was gone. I didn't give thought to remounting /boot before unmerging lilo. That's why I didn't have the same problem on the x86. It was the last pc I changed and also the least important so I removed lilo immediately after installing grub without a reboot.


Thank you all for your help.

Greetings,

Edward

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2015-07-30 07:17:55 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 377427 ***