On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 17:36, Andrew Chen wrote: > I am unable to boot my original RH 9 with the RH 7.2 drive installed. If I > disconnect the the drive (RH 7.2 w/ ext2), then RH 9 boots up fine. > > The RH 7.2 drive used to be the boot drive for another system. Now I just > want to use it as additional storage in my RH 9 system. Hope this clarifies > my system problems. RH uses labels to identify partitions to mount (rather than using device names), so you will tend to have something like:- LABEL=/usr /usr ... instead of /dev/hda6 /usr ... in your fstab (NB I might have got the syntax a little wrong in the first one - I don't use labels myself). The labels applied to the partitions by the installer are directly related to the mount point the filesystem would use. So if you are reusing a drive from another installation you may well have the same label on 2 partitions on different drives, with "interesting" results. Easiest fix is probably to replace the labels in fstab with hardwired device names. Alternative is to use e2label to modify the labels used - or just repartition the drive you have imported. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@InTechnology.co.uk ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
