Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

boot=/dev/hda has nothing to do with /boot. It just means that lilo is 
installed on the master boot record of the first ide hard drive. What you 
have to do if you want to move /boot from the / partition to a partition of 
its own is

mkdir /mnt/tmpmnt1
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/tmpmnt1
cp /boot/* /mnt/tmpmnt1
umount /mnt/tmpmnt1
mount /dev/hda1 /boot
/sbin/lilo
umount /boot
rm /boot/*
edit the fstab file to have an entry for the /boot mount point
reboot

Anders

On Saturday 15 September 2001 21.29, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> ----------------->>>>
> A mount point is just a directory.
> Conventionally people store kernel images and associated
> files in /boot .. if it isn't being used as a mount point
> for a seperate boot fs, then it is just used as an ordinary
> directory would be.
> One of the reasons is that until recently and only with recent
> versions of lilo and PC bios's the boot files had to be in the
> first physical sectors of the disk. So people installing linux
> would tend to create a file system for /boot as the first
> on the disk, making it about 12-15MB in size.
> ----------------->>>>
> Understand, but boot acts different so I want to make sure that I'm doing
> it right.  Here is how boot acts different:
>
> 1.  No entry in fstab
> 2.  Called out in lilo.conf as boot=/dev/hda
> 3.  Doesn't show up with df command
> 4.  Can't unmount it
>
> One thing I've noticed is that on the new drive where I've created and then
> copied the files of the boot partition (/dev/hda1 is new the new boot and
> /dev/hdb1 is old boot) it is mountable (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/tmpmnt1) and
> the old boot isn't mountable (mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/tmpmnt2) saying device
> is busy.  To me this says that lilo isn't booting off the new mount point
> using the boot=/dev/hda.  Yes I've run lilo and rebooted!  Anyone have
> input on this?