walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> wrote in news:864qtvkg34.fsf@hotmail.com:

> "Jay \"Boogieman\" Edwards" <boogie350@NOSPAMyahoo.com> writes:
>
>> ...if I umount /boot (hdb1) as root, there is also a
>> /boot directory in the / partition (hdb2). There is a kernel in there
>> as well as a map and a couple boot.xxx files.
>
> Okay, this is important, because there is no reason to have any files
> in the /boot directory of the root partition.
>
> Those files got there somehow by accident. I would not feel at ease
> until the system boots without any of those files being present.
>
> What are the names of those files in /boot (when your /boot partition
> is NOT mounted?). Maybe that would give a clue about which step your
> installation went astray.
>
Okay... well I was just musing this whole situation over with my co-admin
here... The ACPI being disabled seems to have had some odd effects on
both windoze and Gentoo. so we decided it's best just to SLAM this box
and start over from scratch, with separate hard drives for each OS to
keep things organized.





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