Re: Will RH8 and RH9 Co-Exist? MORE INFO

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The issue is partition "labels".

You'll need to boot whichever one does boot, and edit the fstab for the 
other installation to point to /dev/hdXY instead of to "/" or "/boot", 
etc.

On 8 Jun 2003, Colburn wrote:

> Additional info from Hardware Browser:
> 
> Drive: /dev/hda  79656/16/63  Maxtor  6E040l0
>        /dev/hdb   2498/255/63 Quantum FireballP LM 20.5
> 
> DEVICE  START END  SIZE(MB) TYPE
> /dev/hda
> hda1  1      203    100    ext3
> hda2  204    78616  38594  ext3
> hda3  78617  79656  512    ext3
> 
> __
> \//dev/hdb 
> __
> \/ hdb4 2434  2498  510  Extended
>    hdb5 2434  2498  510  linux-swap
> hdb1     1    1253  9829 fat32
> hdb2   1254   1266  102  ext3
> hdb3   1254   2433  9154 ext3
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Thanks!  doc
> 
> On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 20:30, Colburn wrote:
> > I have just successfully loaded RH9 on one HDD and RH8 has been running
> > on the other.
> > 
> > The RH9 is on the boot disk, RH8 is loaded on the Slave.
> > 
> > When I start up I see:
> > 
> > Mounting local file systems Mount: LABEL = /boot duplicate - not mounted
> > FAILED
> > 
> > Later ... 
> > 
> > Mounting other local file systems Mount: LABEL = /boot duplicate - not
> > mounted FAILED
> > 
> > RH8 has a few early updates but not many, RH9 is right off the boxed CD
> > set.
> > 
> > I'd like to be able to pull some stuff off the RH8 HDD over to the RH9
> > HDD and then wipe it clean.  At this point I cannot even see it.
> > 
> > Thanks!  doc
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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