[Wylug-help] GRUB extra

[scott]

Okay to see if the mount in fstab would work I created a directory
in /mnt/ by
 
"mkdir /mnt/fedora"

I then typed
 
"mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/fedora"

when I entered the directory /mnt/fedora all that came up was lost
+found.  I have installed a /boot partition here so I can experiment
with GRUB to enable me to not depend on the distro installation to find
all the OS's on my PC - because they have failed in the past to enable
me to load them from GRUB.  I also tried mounting sda6 which is the
actual fedora core 6 installation and the same lost+found came up. can
anyone explain what I am doing wrong.

the reason for me wanting to mount my drive is to find out the exact
kernal i have installed for me to tell GRUB.

Craig Hopkins showed me his Grub for fedora and corrected my mistakes,
but when I select it Grub tells me I have to load the kernal before
initrd.  this leads me to surmise that I have inputted the wrong kernal
for it to load.

I must apologise for dragging this out so long, as it must be a facile
task for most of you to do.

Regards

Scott 

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 09:42 +0000, Towle, William wrote:
> > > mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/fedora
> > > 
> > > (where /mnt/fedora already exists of course).
> > 
> > What does that mean? does it mean if there is a partition there or
> > something called mnt/fedora in a configuration file?
> 
>   Both of the DEVICE and DIRECTORY arguments given to mount
> must be a) a device node or b) a directory that already
> exist; it will complain otherwise. The directory you mount
> the device onto does not have to be empty, but in that case
> you won't see its original content afterwards.
> 
>   ...the same limitations apply to the line you add to
> /etc/fstab. Note the comma you used is spurious [it's the
> previous field which is comma-separated], ie:
> 
> > "/dev/sda5        /data       ext3       defaults         0,0"
> 
> should read:
> 
> /dev/sda5		/data		ext3		defaults
> 0	0
> 
>   Here, you'll get warnings if (on attempting 'mount ...')
> /dev/sda5 is corrupt or isn't an ext3 filesystem, /data is a
> directory that doesn't exist, and so on.
> 
>   Since you asked, the last two columns are concerned with
> whether you'll be backing up the data and whether to run the
> boot-time disk check. You might want to change the latter.
> 
> 
> > sorry 
> > for being so
> > finicky but i am new to Linux and don't want to make a mess of my PC -
> > which i already have done previously messing about trying to get it
> > working, wrecking my windows drive in the process.
> 
>   That's okay, we understand.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Wills.
> 
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