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Apewall

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Registered: 2007-08-12

Posts: 29

"/boot" partition not being mounted or used

I have my disk partitioned in 3 sections,
/dev/sdc1 "/boot"
/dev/sdc2 "swap"
/dev/sdc3 "/"

When i boot up it uses the "boot" folder mounted on /dev/sdc3 "/" named "boot" instead of "/dev/sdc1" which is supposed to be "/boot".

If I change it in fstab to mount /dev/sdc1 partition correctly as /boot, it boots from "/dev/sdc3"'s /boot instead, then loads /dev/sdc1 as "/boot" afterwards.

Any suggestions, it is hard to explain. hmm

Basicly, what do I need to do to make sure my /boot partition is being USED as the /boot ?

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: "/boot" partition not being mounted or used

You need to tell GRUB (in /boot/grub/menu.lst) to use sdc1 as the "root", even though you pass "root=/dev/sdc3" on the kernel command line. If GRUB is itself looking in the wrong place for config files, you'll need to reinstall GRUB.

Apewall

Member

Registered: 2007-08-12

Posts: 29

Re: "/boot" partition not being mounted or used

So should I just begin by doing a new grub install like:

grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sdc1