Hmm, I have not been paying attention to my system in a while ... I just
noticed that I no longer have a /boot/grub directory.

I cannot even find a grub.conf on the system.

What happened ?? and how does my system still bootup ???



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Dennis wrote:
> Hmm, I have not been paying attention to my system in a while ... I just
> noticed that I no longer have a /boot/grub directory.
>
> I cannot even find a grub.conf on the system.
>
> What happened ?? and how does my system still bootup ???
>
>
>
It is possible that the /boot partition is not automatically mounted at
boot. Check your /etc/fstab.

Ken

Kenton Groombridge wrote:

> Dennis wrote:
>> Hmm, I have not been paying attention to my system in a while ... I just
>> noticed that I no longer have a /boot/grub directory.
>>
>> I cannot even find a grub.conf on the system.
>>
>> What happened ?? and how does my system still bootup ???
>>
>>
>>
> It is possible that the /boot partition is not automatically mounted at
> boot. Check your /etc/fstab.
That is even the safe and recommended way to do it. So you can not
accidently remove your kernel to boot with or grub.conf etc.
Or corrupt the boot partition when your system crashes for some reason.

It is read at boot time by grub from the boot partition and
this partition is indeed not mounted. But your
boot dir is still in the root and is empty. When you want to change
kernel to boot from, you first mount the boot partition on /boot then
add the new kernel, change grub.conf accordingly and then you can
reboot with the new kernel.

Peter.

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Thanks ... I accidentally had noauto set in fstab.

Hmmm, why is it that I can still see files in my /boot directory ??? even
though it was not mounted ??


Kenton Groombridge wrote:

> Dennis wrote:
>> Hmm, I have not been paying attention to my system in a while ... I just
>> noticed that I no longer have a /boot/grub directory.
>>
>> I cannot even find a grub.conf on the system.
>>
>> What happened ?? and how does my system still bootup ???
>>
>>
>>
> It is possible that the /boot partition is not automatically mounted at
> boot. Check your /etc/fstab.
>
> Ken

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On 2006-02-13, Dennis <dennis@oyamaphotography.com> wrote:
> Thanks ... I accidentally had noauto set in fstab.

as already mentioned, that's a "good thing (TM)"


> Hmmm, why is it that I can still see files in my /boot directory ??? even
> though it was not mounted ??

because if you don't mount a disk partition there, then /boot is just
another directory hanging off your root partition. You can place any
files you like there. When you mount /boot, those files will be hidden
by the ones on the mounted partition.

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Thanks, I was fooled into thinking that the partion was mounted because most
of the files were displayed.
Little did I know that they were copied into the unmounted /boot directory.



Darren Davison wrote:

> On 2006-02-13, Dennis <dennis@oyamaphotography.com> wrote:
>> Thanks ... I accidentally had noauto set in fstab.
>
> as already mentioned, that's a "good thing (TM)"
>
>
>> Hmmm, why is it that I can still see files in my /boot directory ??? even
>> though it was not mounted ??
>
> because if you don't mount a disk partition there, then /boot is just
> another directory hanging off your root partition. You can place any
> files you like there. When you mount /boot, those files will be hidden
> by the ones on the mounted partition.
>

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Dennis <dennis@oyamaphotography.com> writes:
>I cannot even find a grub.conf on the system.

This can happen even if you have the boot partition mounted. Grub
actually looks up its configuration in a file called menu.lst. Some
systems have a link from grub.conf to menu.lst, but that's not
universal.

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