/boot filesystem

[Rashkae]

On 10-11-22 10:25 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
>
> Good point, Rashkae, and I know that /boot (if in separate partition) is
> in fstab.
>
> If you are willing to risk amending your fstab (knowing you or Tom H can
> rectify it later  :)  ), try commenting out the /boot from the fstab,
> reboot and see if /boot is mounted. Also do an update-grub or intramfs
> and see what happens.
>    

I can't do this myself, since I haven't used a separate boot partition 
since the Slackware 7 days.  update-grub, I would immagine, has the 
potential to be dangerous to run in this scenario, if it doesn't error 
out gracefully.
> ps: my 'primary boot' partition is not mounted after boot-up (and not in
> fstab), and more importantly,I cannot do this as my 'OS /boots' are all
> in / and .. (I forgot.., stuck here, know there's one more point   :)  )
>
>    

If you don't have separate boot partitions for your OS /boot, then what, 
exactly, do you consider your primary boot partition?  (Other than the / 
of one of your Linux installs?).  I think we are talking about 
completely different concepts here.  (Unless you're referring to the 
boot partition to embed grub in a gpt drive, but I think that's a level 
of discussion way beyond the topic that spawned this thread.)