On Friday 28 March 2008 01:23:50 am Andrew Farris wrote: > John M Cavallo wrote: > > When installing Fedora 9 onto an existing partition that already has a > > label, the installer will change the label to "/". If there is an > > existing partition with this label the system will fail to boot. If there > > is an existing installation on the computer that uses the labels in its > > fstab, it will fail to boot as well. Could the custom partition editor > > either keep the existing label or allow the user to set the partition > > label with the existing label as a default? > > The F9 system /etc/fstab should have had UUIDs rather than labels specified > to mount the partitions. Is that not the case after your install? Having > two partitions labeled '/' should work fine. > > -- > Andrew Farris <lordmorgul@xxxxxxxxx> www.lordmorgul.net > gpg 0xC99B1DF3 fingerprint CDEC 6FAD BA27 40DF 707E A2E0 F0F6 E622 C99B > 1DF3 No one now has, and no one will ever again get, the big picture. - > Daniel Geer ---- > ---- The problem isn't with Fedora 9, it with the other installations of Fedora on that computer. They use the previous standard of LABEL=??? and fail to boot. I thought that previous versions of the installer would honor the existing labels, at least I have never noticed this problem before. I was mistaken about Fedora 9 failing to boot, there was another problem which I have since cleared up. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
