/boot empty after fresh install

mibadt · 2012-07-20 08:19:04

Hi,
Just finished afresh bare (no X so far) X86-64 install on a dual disk PC using legacy grub.
After reboot I couldn't boot into the Linux using grub.
I've chrooted (per Arch Wiki, using the Arch Net install CD) in order to edit grub's menu.lst.
Yet I was surprised to find separate ext2 /boot partition to be EMPTY!
my /etc/fstab says for that partition
"UUID=..../boot/ etx2 defaults 0 1
whereas my mtab says
/dev/sda1 /boot etx2 rw,realtime,errors=continue 0 0

My questions:
As I right guessing my Linux isn't fully installed-kernel image missing?
is the errors entry in mtab ok?
That's my first chroot. Is it OK that my prompt (after issueing the chroot command) is (inside the quotation marks) "[root@archiso /]#"

Do I need to reinstall?

Thanks

Awebb · 2012-07-20 08:38:40

That looks like there is something missing indeed. Unmount /boot and check, if the installer accidentally put the files in /boot, the folder /boot on the root partition, instead of mounting /dev/sda1 first and then writing the files. Did the installer give you any errors?

Ypnose · 2012-09-02 11:03:23

Same things here. Followed wiki but my /boot partition is empty.
EDIT: I figured out. It was a mistake from me. I didn't mount /boot partition even if I was sure to did it.

Last edited by Ypnose (2012-09-02 13:35:28)

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#1 2012-07-20 08:19:04

/boot empty after fresh install

#2 2012-07-20 08:38:40

Re: /boot empty after fresh install

#3 2012-09-02 11:03:23

Re: /boot empty after fresh install

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