Remount boot with -o notail option in chrooted shell?

[saint_abroad]

I have had to restart installation a number of times because in spite of mounting the reiserfs boot partition with:
mount -o notail /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot
when I enter the chrooted shell and get to stage 3 system (after emerge system) the boot partition is now mounted without the notail option, and this prevents grub from installing.
I tried to unmount the boot partition with:
umount /dev/hda2
but then all the mounts seem to get unmounted, and so I have to restart installation.
I am clearly doing something wrong here, so if anyone could tell me how to remount the reiserfs boot partition with the notail option, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
SaiNT AbroAD
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[sergio]

It is better for the boot partition to use ext2 filesystem, all the users have this problem resolve it using this way...

The /boot partition was very small (32 Mbytes on my system) and there are very few writtings on so there are not necessary to use a journalised fs on /boot

If you choose to use ext2 on your /boot don't forget to compile-in the ext2 support in your kernel (not as module)

Greetings from France

[saint_abroad]

Well I have already formatted my boot partition as reiserfs, and since I am fed up with bootstrapping and emerging the system, I will just have to find a way to use reiserfs with grub. (Unless somebody knows how to change partition to ext2 before kernel configuration without restarting...)

PS. I have heard of ppl using reiserfs with grub in 1.4rc1 before...
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[rac]

[saint_abroad]

I'm new to linux so I wouldn't know. Maybe that would work - but this isnt an issue anymore as I tried to umount outside the chrooted shell in a second virtual terminal and mount again inside the chrooted shell - which resulted in the other mounts disappearing (which were still there after umount except for the boot partition) from the chrooted shell.

I tried to look for info on resetting the mounts inside the chrooted shell to no avail, even exiting the chrooted shell and rebooting the computer then re-entering the chrooted shell but that still didnt restore the mounts . I couldnt even rebuild the mounts because I got (strange [to me anyways]) error messages.

Guess I have to repress my stubborness and accept an ext2 boot partition (but I sooo wanted all partitions to be reiserfs... ). I'm still want reiserfs tho, so if anyone has managed to setup grub+reiserfs+1.4rc1 I'd be happy to hear about how you did it.

SaiNT_AbroAD
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[pilla]

You can format /boot again with reiserfs after the first boot (real boot, not chroot).

[saint_abroad]

I assume I would do this sort of thing:
mkdir /tmp/mybootpartition
cp /boot /mybootpartition
umount /dev/hda2
mkreiserfs /dev/hda2
mount -o notail /dev/hda2
cp /mybootpartition /boot

and everything should work ok?
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[pilla]

If you use "cp" without the -R option, it won't copy the subdirectories.
You should do

[saint_abroad]

Thanks, Ill try that,
SaiNT
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[vers_iq]

why not just remount it,