There is no '/boot' directory...

[massiverse]

Hello

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04. I'm getting an error message when I attempt to create an image from the converter.

There is no '/boot' directory on the source machine. It is required to create a bootable virtual machine. Please mount the '/boot' directory on the source machine.

I don't understand this message because my root directory does contain a '/boot' directory:

michael@ultraman:/$ ls -l

total 100

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-12 17:54 bin

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-08-12 17:58 boot

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2008-05-08 18:31 cdrom -> media/cdrom

Although, I must admit that mount -l does not return a /boot directory in the list.

michael@ultraman:/$ mount -l

proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)

varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)

udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)

devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-18-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)

securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)

none on /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint type vmblock (rw)

/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal) []

Can someone point me in the right direction here? How should I proceed to mount the boot directory?

Thanks

[vmweathers]

Not only is there no /boot listed, there is no root filesystem listed either! (/) e.g., /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) []

Maybe you just neglected to include it in the output you copied-and-pasted?

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[massiverse]

No, unfortunately that is the entire output.

I'm starting to get the idea that this issue should be posted in an ubuntu forum instead!

Thanks,

August

[vmweathers]

Can you post "cat /proc/partitions" and "sudo /usr/sbin/parted -l" (might be in different location)?

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[massiverse]

thanks for the help - here's the output:

michael@ultraman:~$ cat /proc/partitions

major minor #blocks name

8 0 78125000 sda

8 1 74894998 sda1

8 5 3229033 sda5

8 16 976773168 sdb

8 17 976768064 sdb1

for the parted command, there was no "-l" option. Did you mean a different command?

Thanks

[vmweathers]

Well, it depends on your version of parted. The one on my OpenSUSE 10.3 is 1.8.7. I guess you have an older version. Just enter the parted command and at the (parted) prompt type "print all".

Can you also post "df" output?

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[massiverse]

ok, here ya go (and thanks again!)

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

1 32.3kB 76.7GB 76.7GB primary ext3 boot

2 76.7GB 80.0GB 3307MB extended

5 76.7GB 80.0GB 3307MB logical linux-swap

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

1 0.51kB 1000GB 1000GB primary ext3

here is df output

michael@ultraman:~$ df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

varrun 517588 160 517428 1% /var/run

varlock 517588 0 517588 0% /var/lock

udev 517588 40 517548 1% /dev

devshm 517588 12 517576 1% /dev/shm

lrm 517588 38176 479412 8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-18-generic/volatile

/dev/sdb1 969072008 50959168 869274440 6% /media/disk

[massiverse]

Solved:

See thread

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1131347&highlight=filesystem

thanks!