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[bugs #12245] /etc/mtab dependancy not noted in documentation.
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[bugs #12245] /etc/mtab dependancy not noted in documentation. |
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Tue, 8 Mar 2005 01:45:22 +0000 |
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Summary: /etc/mtab dependancy not noted in documentation.
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Tue 03/08/2005 at 01:45
Category: Documentation
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Action Request
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Petro
Originator Email: address@hidden
Open/Closed: Open
Release: Through Current
Reproducibility: None
Planned Release:
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Details:
It seems that grub uses, or looks at /etc/mtab when it installs or sets
itself up for the first time.
This is not documented anywhere, so if one is doing something really ugly and
bizarre (like backing a system up to a different disk, removing the boot disk,
forgetting the proper partition layout (which was overly complicated) and
completely forgetting about /etc/mtab (which documented said partition
layout) then one could (hypothetically of course) spend several days trying
to figure out why he can't get the machine to boot, even though grub is
finding the kernel and the initrd, but things keep blowing up after
pivotroot.
Dunno exactly where in the docs to make the change, but if you'd like me too,
I can give it a whack and submit the changes.
I don't know if version 2 does the same sort of ugliness, but having had to
do wierd emergency disk drive broke fix it now now now things in the past,
the more of the process that is configurable at the command line, and the
more that is documented in the man page (use of info considered harmful), the
better life is.
Thanks.
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