On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 07:43:18 Walter Dnes 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. > > The installation handbook used to include a command to write /etc/mtab in the > chroot by grepping the host mtab, but it's been removed and I haven't been > able to find it. Meanwhile, I think it's standard behaviour for mtab not to be > populated during the installation process. > > So I'd also be interested to hear from anyone who knows what mtab should > contain.
I symlink "/proc/self/mounts" to "/etc/mtab". But the handbook has "grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab".
