On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:24:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote
>>
>> I symlink "/proc/self/mounts" to "/etc/mtab".
>>
>> But the handbook has "grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab".
>
> I re-checked the AMD64 install docs in Firefox "{CTRL}F" "mtab" in...
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1
>
> The ***Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install*** section has...
>
>> Code Listing 4.5: Creating /etc/mtab
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>> # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
>
> The lilo install does not have these instructions, neither does grub-2,
> just legacy grub. I've installed Gentoo with lilo a lot of times over
> the past several years (since November 2004), and I have never had to
> tweak /etc/mtab. This implies one of...
>
> * either the behaviour of /etc/mtab has changed.
> * or grepping "mount" output is a recent "new and improved feature" of
> the lilo ebuild.Sorry. I hadn't seen in which section the grep was.
