grub, kernel and mount woes

[Thufir]

Oops, forgot to include some data:

[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]# mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sdb3 on /mnt/sdb3 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /mnt/sda2 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]# fdisk /dev/sda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9729.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1912    15358108+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1913        1925      104422+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            1926        9729    62685630   8e  Linux LVM

Command (m for help): q

[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 59582.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59582 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1         203      102280+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb2             204        2109      960624   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3            2110       59579    28964880   83  Linux

Command (m for help): q

[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]# ll /mnt/sdb3/
total 34128
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      4096 2007-07-29 00:37 bin
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      4096 2007-07-26 02:38 boot
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      4096 2007-07-26 02:54 dev
drwxr-xr-x 68 1000 users     4096 2007-11-17 00:10 etc
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      4096 2007-07-26 07:59 home
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root      4096 2007-10-17 01:02 lib
drwx------  2 root root     16384 2007-07-26 02:37 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    133809 2007-07-26 02:58 metadata.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root      4096 2007-10-07 00:17 mnt
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root      4096 2007-09-07 23:38 opt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  34686418 2007-07-26 02:55 portage-2007.0.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      4096 2007-07-26 02:45 proc
drwx------ 23 root root      4096 2007-11-15 22:39 root
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      4096 2007-10-07 00:37 sbin
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      4096 2007-07-26 02:45 sys
drwxrwxrwt 23 root root      4096 2007-11-17 00:10 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 15 1000 users     4096 2007-02-07 05:04 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root      4096 2007-07-29 00:34 var
[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]# ll /mnt/sdb3/boot/
total 0
[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]# date
Sat Nov 17 00:57:38 PST 2007
[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]#



thanks,

Thufir