søn, 12.12.2004 kl. 17.55 skrev Manu Abraham: > On Sun December 12 2004 4:45 pm, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > 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. > That's what i temporarily did to solve the problem... > > Manu > Sometimes, the simplest solution is the best solution :)