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fatty n00b
Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 6 Location: Raleigh, NC
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 2:33 am Post subject: /boot/boot/boot/boot/.... |
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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 _________________ I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
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MrJ412 n00b
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Shawnee, KS
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 4:53 am Post subject: RE: /boot/boot/boot/boot/.... |
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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? |
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cedric n00b
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 9:00 am Post subject: |
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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. |
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Beforegod Bodhisattva
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 1494 Location: Frankfurt/Main
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 9:08 am Post subject: |
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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,
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 11:02 am Post subject: |
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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 |
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Ozymandias Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 81 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 11:10 am Post subject: |
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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
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greetz Ozy |
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fghellar Bodhisattva
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 856 Location: Porto Alegre, BR
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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 1:46 am Post subject: |
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Just to complement: this point is covered in the GRUB FAQ. |
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pjp Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Bugs to Other Things Gentoo. _________________ Quis separabit? Quo animo? |
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mksoft l33t
Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844
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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 7:30 am Post subject: |
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See this post for explanation. _________________ There's someone in my head but it's not me - Pink Floyd |
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