yum update 2179 kernel

Andy Green fedora at warmcat.com
Tue Apr 20 23:10:28 UTC 2004


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On Tuesday 20 April 2004 21:50, John Fleming wrote:

> Can anyone see how this got my boot partition off the mount list??  The

That's not what happened.  Your /etc/fstab was still requesting to stick the 
partition labelled "/boot" at the mountpoint /boot as intended.  But when at 
boot-time it went looking on the devices to find out which partition was so 
labelled, it found not one but two partitions wandering around your system 
with that label (one being the legitimate one on /dev/hda1 and we suspect an 
unintentional one on /dev/sda1).  Then it threw its hands up in the air, made 
the log message and mounted neither, since it could not determine which was 
the one you wanted.

> flash disk only had a website on it, i.e. html files and images.  Maybe
> when I first plugged it in, before making the udpfstab change, it got
> marked with a /boot?

Did you format your USB drive with ext2 or ext3? If so then thanks the 
Alexander's great tip about e2label, you can get a definitive answer to your 
question.  Stick the USB drive in, and try

e2label /dev/sda1

to see what that partition is labelled as.  If it is vfat.... then I dunno.

- -Andy

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