/boot/boot/boot/boot/....

fatty · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 6 Location: Raleigh, NC

I ran into a nasty little problem where untarring the stage1.xx.tbz2 resulted in a symlink being placed in /boot which pointed to .

so... when you looked in /boot there would be a boot and when you looked in there, there would be a boot and on and on.

SOLUTION:
cd /boot
rm -f boot

I'm not sure why this happens, but I guess there is some wackiness in the stage1.xx.tbz2
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MrJ412 · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Shawnee, KS

I was under the impression that this was actually by design, and has a purpose (aka - not a bug)... Anyone know what that purpose is?

cedric · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Belgium

I have read something about this in the mailing lists but I can't remember what.
Anyway I am sure it is not a bug.

Beforegod · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 9:08 am Post subject:

I think its required (or optinal??) for GRUB.
On my Debian Workstation i had the same thing.. but it is ok i think!

(Debian fails to boot if you rm -f /boot/boot .. i think its a grub thing!)

Greetings,
Beforegod

Guest · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 11:02 am Post subject:

HI,

It is a GRUB thing: normally this partition is mounted under /boot so, your kernel is called /boot/vmLinuz. But if you specify that in menu.lst then when GRUB is loaded it cannot find /boot/vmLinuz (should have been called vmLinuz), so you cannot boot. To ever prevent this mistake from happening there is a symlink boot to '.'.

greetz Ozy

Ozymandias · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 11:10 am Post subject:

the answer above was me, I wasn't logged on.

what I wanted to add (just to state the obvious):
it should have been called vmLinuz in menu.lst since this is how it is called in /dev/hda1 (the partition where GRUB resides) but if the system is fully functioning, then this partition gets mounted under /boot

..

greetz Ozy

fghellar · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 1:46 am Post subject:

Just to complement: this point is covered in the GRUB FAQ.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Bugs to Other Things Gentoo.
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mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

See this post for explanation.
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