Tieum
Posts: 11
Joined: Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:46 am

Unable to access /boot

Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:14 pm

Hello,

I have a boot partition on a 1Gb SDcard and my system on a USB stick. Since a few days I am unable to access the /boot partition after starting the system.

I can perfectly see the SDCard and its partition:
$ ll /dev/mmc*
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 179, 0 Oct 16 22:44 /dev/mmcblk0
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 179, 1 Oct 16 22:44 /dev/mmcblk0p1

/boot is mounted:
$ mount | grep boot
systemd-1 on /boot type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)

I can even mount the partition somewhere else and list its content perfectly:
# mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt
# ll /mnt
total 39204
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 17756 Oct 20 01:56 bootcode.bin
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 123 Oct 16 22:44 cmdline.txt
.....

But when I try to access /boot it gets stuck and I have to hit ^C to interrupt it.
$ ll /boot
^Cls: cannot open directory /boot: Interrupted system call

Any idea why this would happen and how to fix it?

Tieum
Posts: 11
Joined: Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:46 am

Re: Unable to access /boot

Fri Sep 05, 2014 6:10 pm

So this was because /etc/fsatb had LABEL="boot" but the SD card was labeled BOOT.

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