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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:15 pm    Post subject: empty /boot but boot partition has kernels Reply with quote

Hi guys. I'm having a fun time detecting what I am really booting from. My boot partition is on /dev/mapper/sil_bgbhajacbddh2.

Code:

localhost linux # mount /boot
localhost linux # ls /boot   (nothing)
localhost linux # mount -v /boot
mount: /dev/mapper/sil_bgbhajacbddh2 mounted on /boot.

localhost linux # mount /dev/mapper/sil_bgbhajacbddh2 /mnt/boot
localhost linux # ls /mnt/boot
grub                                      kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.17.7-gentoo
initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.17.7-gentoo  System.map-genkernel-x86_64-3.17.7-gentoo


So basically if I mount boot partition to the /boot I don't see anything. If mounted somewhere else I see its contents. What does this mean?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check your /etc/fstab entry for the proper /boot record
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BlueFusion wrote:
Check your /etc/fstab entry for the proper /boot record


:?

Code:

localhost linux # cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed); notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency).  It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail / tail freely.
#
# The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.
# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
#

# <fs>         <mountpoint>   <type>      <opts>      <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
#/dev/BOOT      /boot      ext2      noauto,noatime   1 2
#/dev/ROOT      /      ext3      noatime      0 1
#/dev/SWAP      none      swap      sw      0 0
/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom   auto      noauto,user   0 0
#/dev/fd0      /mnt/floppy   auto      noauto      0 0

/dev/mapper/sil_bgbhajacbddh2   /boot      ext2   noauto,noatime     1 2
/dev/sdd5         none      swap   sw         0 1
/dev/mapper/sil_bgbhajacbddh4   /      ext4   noatime         0 1
/dev/sdd1         /home      ext4   noatime,discard      0 1
/dev/sdc2         /mnt/hitachi   ntfs-3g   defaults      0 0


It's correct. Nevertheless its empty when I mount /boot
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:41 pm    Post subject: Re: empty /boot but boot partition has kernels Reply with quote

anydoby wrote:
Hi guys. I'm having a fun time detecting what I am really booting from. My boot partition is on /dev/mapper/sil_bgbhajacbddh2.

Code:

localhost linux # mount /boot
localhost linux # ls /boot   (nothing)
localhost linux # mount -v /boot
mount: /dev/mapper/sil_bgbhajacbddh2 mounted on /boot.

localhost linux # mount /dev/mapper/sil_bgbhajacbddh2 /mnt/boot
localhost linux # ls /mnt/boot
grub                                      kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.17.7-gentoo
initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.17.7-gentoo  System.map-genkernel-x86_64-3.17.7-gentoo


So basically if I mount boot partition to the /boot I don't see anything. If mounted somewhere else I see its contents. What does this mean?


This means your /boot was not mounted when you installed your kernel, it is in /boot directory on / now.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:53 pm    Post subject: Re: empty /boot but boot partition has kernels Reply with quote

I'm writing this from ubuntu, since when I compiled a kernel with some additional flags I needed and installed it to the /boot manually the next time I booted I got this in dmesg:

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[   21.877921] ipv6: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.895743] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.895744] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.895800] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.895815] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896145] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896164] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896187] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896205] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896419] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896438] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896460] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896480] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896685] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896726] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896817] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896858] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.896996] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897039] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897093] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897133] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897348] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897365] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897389] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897407] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897694] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897711] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897735] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.897753] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.898039] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.898058] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.898080] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.898099] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.898734] button: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.912588] button: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.921177] pata_acpi: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.921178] pata_acpi: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.922167] ata_generic: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.922258] ata_generic: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.922298] ata_generic: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.922336] ata_generic: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.922568] pata_acpi: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.922603] ata_generic: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.925994] mii: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.925995] mii: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.926722] soundcore: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.926752] soundcore: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.926907] soundcore: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.927572] i2c_i801: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.963422] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   21.990187] joydev: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.001534] button: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.008508] microcode: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.008526] microcode: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.008548] microcode: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.008561] microcode: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.011113] kvm: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.011198] kvm: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.011248] kvm: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.011322] kvm: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.011795] coretemp: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.011838] coretemp: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.011862] coretemp: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.011862] coretemp: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.011911] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.012061] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.013834] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.013914] processor: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   22.057076] rfkill: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[   24.843111] ipv6: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout


No network, no sound.

I'm afraid I'll leave you for some time - going back to gentoo.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:11 pm    Post subject: Re: empty /boot but boot partition has kernels Reply with quote

Ok. I'm back again with sound and the new kernel. Wiped the /boot directory altogether. From now on I'll build kernel manually and copy it manually to the manually mounted boot partition in a separate mount folder, and manually add a grub.cfg entry (learned enough in the process :) ). I still don't see the contents of the /boot directory though.

Thanks everyone who helped.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You are supposed to see empty /boot if it is not mounted. It does not need to be mounted to run your box. You only need to mount it when you upgrade/add/remove kernels.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:27 pm    Post subject: Re: empty /boot but boot partition has kernels Reply with quote

If you really had the partition mounted at /boot, that command to mount it at /mnt/boot should've given you an error (without -o bind). Post the contents of /etc/mtab, /proc/self/mounts, and ls -l /etc/mtab.
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