FC3 empty /boot

[S. Bandyopadhyay]

On 2005-01-20, 13:00 -0500, James Pifer wrote

>  Okay, still not finding any answers I decided to run through the FC3
>  install again. I reinstalled and two things happen. I get failure during
>  the first boot when the system tries to mount /boot from fstab. It says
>  it's a duplicate and won't mount. I can comment that out and it gets rid
>  of the error, BUT, my /boot directory is still empty. 
>  
>  Please help, I can't install newer kernels right now. 
>  
>  Any help is appreciated!
>  
>  Thanks,
>  James
>  
>  


you have two partitions with the same label (boot)

either either /etc/fstab  and change

LABEL=/boot 

to 

/dev/hdaX

(replace the above with the right partition). 

or relabel the offending partition

e2label /dev/hdbX /boot1 

etc... 

the second option is prefered . 

see:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-29510.html