FC3 empty /boot
S. Bandyopadhyay
sbandy at umd.edu
Thu Jan 20 18:11:00 UTC 2005
On 2005-01-20, 13:00 -0500, James Pifer wrote
> Okay, still not finding any answers I decided to run through the FC3
> install again. I reinstalled and two things happen. I get failure during
> the first boot when the system tries to mount /boot from fstab. It says
> it's a duplicate and won't mount. I can comment that out and it gets rid
> of the error, BUT, my /boot directory is still empty.
>
> Please help, I can't install newer kernels right now.
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
you have two partitions with the same label (boot)
either either /etc/fstab and change
LABEL=/boot
to
/dev/hdaX
(replace the above with the right partition).
or relabel the offending partition
e2label /dev/hdbX /boot1
etc...
the second option is prefered .
see:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-29510.html
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