On 2004-01-17, Bill Davis <BillD@omniforgetit.com> wrote:
> Well, I got Gentoo installed without benefit of an Internet connection.
> The live CD did very well, although the AMD64 live CD is apparently
> missing the portage directory. I didn't know how to make a dialup
> connection on install to get the folder so I moved down to the x86 LCD and
> it went ok.
>
> At the end of the process, I did a genkernel default compile and a basic
> GRUB installation. Before I rebooted I checked the /boot and /boot/grub
> directories to make sure that I had something that might possibly boot.
> They looked just about like any other Linux - a normal image and grub.conf
> file.
>
> Rebooted just fine, except for some kernel modules or hardware that are
> missing - something for later when I will make a custom kernel.
>
> But.... When I look in /boot now, it is empty! Nothing.
>
> So how am I booting with an empty /boot directory. Obviously grub knows
> to look somewhere for the proper info, but what moved it? A locate search
> for grub.conf only comes up with a man page.
>
> I am lost and don't want to continue till I understand this.
>
> Anybody?
>
> Bill Davis

The default /etc/fstab doesn't mount /boot automatically. If you need to
do something with /boot, mount it:

$ mount /boot

This is a feature, not a bug -- it's intended to keep people from
accidentally losing their /boot due to carelessness or filesystem
corruption, since generally you're not writing to /boot often. You can
remove noauto from the /boot line in fstab if you'd prefer to have it
automatically mounted.

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Jon Portnoy
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