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Hello after installation my system came with a /boot partition mounted
but not used.

I mean: during installation i edited partitions and specified mount
points:
/dev/hda2       very small (45MB)       /boot
/dev/hda5       much bigger (1.5GB)     / (root) .
/dev/hda6       (700MB)                 /home

Then at the first system boot I found instead:
/dev/hda5       mounted as / (root) containing a /boot subdir with all
the usual boot stuff inside
/dev/hda2       mounted as /boot but nearly empty (just kernel.h and
lost+found in it).
As you understand when the latter is mounted it hides the real /boot
containts, which become invisible.

I explain it from the command line
<boot the system and login as root>
#ls /boot       -> lost+found        kernel.h
#umount /boot
#ls /boot       -> "usual boot files" (many more)

Why did the penguin come out like this after install?
How can the system boot up OK?
What should check to understand this?
(In fact lilo.conf is pointing to /dev/hda5, I did not change it yet)

What can I do to "repair" this?
Is the following procedure Ok and enough?
#umount /boot                           (make boot files visible)
#mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt/boot      (temp: chg mountpoint)
#cp /boot/* /mnt/boot                   (copy boot containts)
#vi lilo.conf (and change boot=/dev/hda2)       (make lilo aware)
#/sbin/lilo
#shutdown -r now                        (reboot)
<should this make the system boot from /dev/hda2?>
<login as root again and check everything's ok>
#mount                                  (check mounted fs's)
#umount /boot                           (make old boot info visible)
#rm -r /boot/*                  (remove them from wrong partition)
#mount /boot                    (remount the right /boot partition)

NB. things are perhaps complicated by my limited knowledge of LABEL=
lines in /etc/fstab. How does the system know that LABEL=/boot1
"means" /dev/hda2? Could you please redirect me to good docs?

Thank you very much

Lurix
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Most likely you didn't follow the "normal" install procedures.  What you
are seeing here is that the system doesn't use /boot partition, but used
the /boot directory under / to do the booting; nevertheless, /etc/fstab
points to your /dev/hda2 and mounted it to /boot AFTER booting up.

Quote:> Why did the penguin come out like this after install?
> How can the system boot up OK?
> What should check to understand this?
> (In fact lilo.conf is pointing to /dev/hda5, I did not change it yet)

This is exactly what happened: LILO boots from /, even though it looks
for kernel under /boot directory.  This is not the way RH prefers to
install itself, though perfectly OK.

Quote:> What can I do to "repair" this?
> Is the following procedure Ok and enough?
> #umount /boot                              (make boot files visible)
> #mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt/boot (temp: chg mountpoint)
> #cp /boot/* /mnt/boot                      (copy boot containts)

cp -r instead of cp

Quote:> #vi lilo.conf (and change boot=/dev/hda2)  (make lilo aware)
> #/sbin/lilo
> #shutdown -r now                   (reboot)
> <should this make the system boot from /dev/hda2?>

It should.