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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:09 AM

Hi,

I am fairly new to Linux and Gentoo. Recently I installed Gentoo on my
system, every thing was working fine until today. When I booted in to
Gentoo today, the boot process gave me an error about /dev/boot and
asked me to manually run fsck. I tried to do that and it gave me this
error "No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/BOOT". I
checked /dev and there is no boot or BOOT link. My root partition is
ReiserFS, so I ran reiserfsck --check on the root partition to check for
errors but did not found any errors. Please help me fix this problem.

Rana

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:09 AM

Rana Ahmed wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am fairly new to Linux and Gentoo. Recently I installed Gentoo on my
> system, every thing was working fine until today. When I booted in to
> Gentoo today, the boot process gave me an error about /dev/boot and
> asked me to manually run fsck. I tried to do that and it gave me this
> error "No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/BOOT". I
> checked /dev and there is no boot or BOOT link. My root partition is
> ReiserFS, so I ran reiserfsck --check on the root partition to check for
> errors but did not found any errors. Please help me fix this problem.
>
> Rana

You have probably updated your working /etc/fstab with blank one, which
contains BOOT, ROOT instead of corresponding partitions.

This happens if you run etc-update and then choose replacing existing fstab
with update.

Gentoo can't be 100% sure how to update config files in /etc, so it has to
ask you. All the config stuff that you did not touch can be replaced with
update, but everything that you have modified in some way or another should
be reconsidered. Like fstab, passwd, groups etc.

You should check /etc/fstab and repalce all those ROOTs, BOOTs with correct
entries...

Regards,

Branko

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:09 AM

SIOL wrote:
>
> You have probably updated your working /etc/fstab with blank one, which
> contains BOOT, ROOT instead of corresponding partitions.
>
> This happens if you run etc-update and then choose replacing existing fstab
> with update.
>
> Gentoo can't be 100% sure how to update config files in /etc, so it has to
> ask you. All the config stuff that you did not touch can be replaced with
> update, but everything that you have modified in some way or another should
> be reconsidered. Like fstab, passwd, groups etc.
>
> You should check /etc/fstab and repalce all those ROOTs, BOOTs with correct
> entries...
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Branko

Thanks, that solved my problem.

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