> 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.

Thanks for the education. Have been using RH all along and it always
mounted /boot so I didn't even remember that /boot was on a separate
partition. Always before just made /boot and forgot about what it
actually does. Makes total since now.

I am really having fun with Gentoo so far, but all my experience is on
Distros that do stuff automatically and that I am having to do manually
now. Makes for a different experience, but now I realise that this is the
way that I should have learned Linux to begin with.

Thanks again
Bill Davis