----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Green" <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:10 PM Subject: Re: yum update 2179 kernel > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 20 April 2004 21:50, John Fleming wrote: > > > Can anyone see how this got my boot partition off the mount list?? The > > That's not what happened. Your /etc/fstab was still requesting to stick the > partition labelled "/boot" at the mountpoint /boot as intended. But when at > boot-time it went looking on the devices to find out which partition was so > labelled, it found not one but two partitions wandering around your system > with that label (one being the legitimate one on /dev/hda1 and we suspect an > unintentional one on /dev/sda1). Then it threw its hands up in the air, made > the log message and mounted neither, since it could not determine which was > the one you wanted. > > > flash disk only had a website on it, i.e. html files and images. Maybe > > when I first plugged it in, before making the udpfstab change, it got > > marked with a /boot? > > Did you format your USB drive with ext2 or ext3? If so then thanks the > Alexander's great tip about e2label, you can get a definitive answer to your > question. Stick the USB drive in, and try > > e2label /dev/sda1 > > to see what that partition is labelled as. If it is vfat.... then I dunno. > > - -Andy I bought the Cruzer new and stuck it in my wife's Windows 98SE laptop and copied her 6000-file website onto it. Never formatted it with Linux. That's why I don't know why it would have /boot on it. I don't have it with me here at work, but will check it out later. I almost threw it away when I finally got it out of my Linux box. It's the one with a defect that allows it to get [usually] hopelessly stuck in the USB socket! Some have destroyed theirs getting them out, and Sandisk is replacing those that display the sticking problem! ;-)) I got lucky and finally got mine out with much force and only a slight deformity of the USB socket! If there's an admitted manufacturing defect, I have no idea why Best Buy is still selling them! It's about time for someone to complain that this is really getting off-thread for FC1, especially since it apparently wasn't yum that caused the problem. Maybe anyone still interested could continue off-list? - John
