[PLUG] Help! -- Cannot find correct /boot

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:19:30PM -0700, wamorita wrote:
> I am running Redhat 9.
> I have recently upgraded from kernal 2.4.20-30.9 to 2.4.20-30.9 .
> I have gone /boot (as root) and where I usually find the file controling the
> grub menu along with other kernal version related files.
> Now all I find in /boot is kernal.h .
> 
> When I look at the boot log I think I see the cause:
>   mount: Mount: LABEL=/boot duplicate - not mounted
>   netfs: Mounting other files systems:  failed
> 
> I look at /etc/fstab and it only has one /boot entry.  If I comment it out
> the error message goes away, but the result in /boot is the same.
> 
> So two questions:
> 
> 1. Why are there now conflicting /boot mounts?
> 2. How do I fix this so I can edit the grub menu?

use the tune2fs command as Zot suggested.

One you determine which parition holds /boot (perhaps /dev/hda1?) change
/etc/fstab so that it mounts the boot partition by its /dev entry rather than
the the partition label.

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