On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > I've got another thread going called... > "Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop". Before I > file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my fault. Can > people here do me a favour? If you have a Gentoo install CD or USB key > handy, and are willing to reboot, can you please do the following... > > 1) boot from the install ISO > 2) chroot to a running environment > 3) list the output from the 2 commands > mount > cat /etc/mtab > > I'm getting absolutely no output at all from those 2 commands in the > install chroot. That screws up the lilo ebuild install process. I want > to check whether blank /etc/mtab is my fault or not.
Are you mounting a proc filesystem within the to-be-chrooted filesystem before chrooting?
