søn, 12.12.2004 kl. 13.16 skrev Manu Abraham: > Hi, > I had a machine running RH9 and a 120GB SATA HDD. The HDD was ailing and > occassionally giving out sector not found {Drive ready,Seek failure} errors. > So i thought it was time to move in to FC3 and a new 160GB SATA HDD. > > Bootup of FC3 gave me a kernel crash, and an error complaining about > suggesting acpi=off, but even with acpi=off, still gave me the same warning > and a crash.. > > I then later on figured that the SATA Enhanced mode operation would be a > problem and switched it to compatibility mode. The motherboard is an ASUS > P4C800, Intel 875 chipset.. Lo it worked.... > > That went fine through.... No problems even though initially i thought not to > edit /etc/fstab by hand because it was generated by fstab-sync ? I went on to > edit it by hand... > > Everything went smoothly... > > > Now i figured that i required some files more were there on the old HDD, than > compared to the backup i had... > > I plugged in the OLD SATA HDD has Primary Slave, and the NEW SATA HDD as > Primary master. > > The initscripts failed stating about duplicate LABEL=/, LABEL=/boot, > LABEL=/work... > > and a hung system... > > I know that if i modify the disklabels to actual device names my problems > would be solved... > > But, what i would like to know is whether a graceful way of doing it exists, > without much hassle... I know that this is not much of an issue, but still > thought it would be better if i posted the problem... > > Manu Comment out the lines, add new lines for the same stuff. Then plug it in, boot, mount the volumes, copy the stuff, shutdown, unplug, and uncomment the lines again.