{"id":1377,"date":"2013-08-16T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oradba.ch\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2013-09-26T14:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T12:02:14","slug":"avdf-missing-boot-partition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oradba.ch\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/avdf-missing-boot-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"AVDF missing boot partition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While working on the problem with missing RAM on the AVDF test system (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oradba.ch\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/avdf-linux-kernel-could-not-recognize-whole-ram\/\" title=\"AVDF Linux kernel could not recognize whole RAM\"><\/a>) I realized, that the linux boot partition is not available by default. <\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"bash\">[root@melete2 log]# ls -al \/boot\ntotal 16\ndrwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan 11  2013 .\ndrwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jul 11 20:19 ..\n\n[root@melete2 log]# df -kh \/boot\nFilesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n\/dev\/mapper\/vg_root-lv_root\n                      6.6G  2.2G  4.1G  35% \/<\/pre>\n<p>Initially I was a bit confused since it contains stuff like grub configuration, inited.img, kernel etc. All stuff that are needed for system boot. Ok, I have not thought about that for the bootloader, the file system does not have to be mounted. From the security point of view it&#8217;s even better to not have it mounted. If not mounted nobody can accidentally change something. \ud83d\ude09 Oracle has defined <code class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"bash\">noauto<\/code> for the boot partition. Therefore the device is not mounted automatically during system boot.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"bash\">[root@melete2 log]# cat \/etc\/fstab|grep boot\nLABEL=\/boot                    \/boot                    ext3   noatime,noauto,nodev,nosuid                  1 2<\/pre>\n<p>If you need to change the grub configuration just mount the boot partition manually.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"bash\">\n[root@melete2 log]# mount \/boot\n\n[root@melete2 log]# vi \/boot\/grub\/grub.conf \n\n[root@melete2 ~]# umount \/boot\n<\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oradba.ch\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/avdf-linux-kernel-could-not-recognize-whole-ram\/\" title=\"AVDF Linux kernel could not recognize whole RAM\">AVDF Linux kernel could not recognize whole RAM<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\/boot\/\">\/boot\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fstab\">fstab<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working on the problem with missing RAM on the AVDF test system (see ) I realized, that the linux boot partition is not available by default. [root@melete2 log]# ls -al \/boot total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 11 2013 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jul 11 20:19 .. 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