From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263805AbUBODYX (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:24:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263861AbUBODYX (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:24:23 -0500 Received: from host-64-65-253-246.alb.choiceone.net ([64.65.253.246]:25039 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263805AbUBODYV (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:24:21 -0500 Message-ID: <402EE1EE.10806@tmr.com> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:05:18 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ricky Beam CC: Dave Kleikamp , Konstantin Kudin , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Strange boot with multiple identical disks References: <1076616510.16375.25.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ricky Beam wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > >>Redhat mounts the file systems by label. I believe if you modify >>/boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab to use the device names (/dev/hda*) >>instead of LABEL=/, etc., then it should boot properly. After wiping >>out hdc, you can change them back to the way they were. > > > It'll boot properly ONCE. Redhat (in their ever increasing stupidity) > converts fstab to labels on every boot. Remove kudzu and this won't > happen anymore. (or mark /etc/fstab as immutable and then NOTHING can > change it.) Or change the label to be unique on each filesystem, of course. There's nothing magic about the names having to be the mount points, or wasn't the last time I had this problem. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979