On Wednesday 26 November 2003 19:12, snookertb wrote: > mount LABEL=/boot duplicate not mounted. > > After booting the /boot directory shows empty in nautilus and when ls is > used. When I probe the /boot directory from a knoppix recovery disk all > the files are still there. > > Commenting out the fstab entry for LABEL=/boot XXXXX .... > removes the boot time error but the /boot directory is still showing > empty, no files or folders. > > any suggestions? Wouldn't this actually be compatible with having two partitions (perhaps on different disks) with label /boot ? Were you upgrading? Maybe you have another partition labelled /boot from a previous installation. (e2label /dev/hda3 tells you the label on that partition.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland