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Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again



On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote:
> Back in February, I asked a question about problems I was having with  
> the hard disks sequence flip-flopping when I would boot: disk #1 would be 
> hda and disk #2 would be hdc; or disk #1 would be hde and disk #2 would 
> be hda.
>
> I receive answers about using labels with the partitions so, I labeled 
> the partitions and updated /etc/fstab.  This is how things now look:
>
>         IDE #1  Partition       Label           Mount Point
>                 1               /               /
>                 2               swap1           swap file
>                 3               /usr            /usr
>                 4
>                 5               /usr/local      /usr/local
>                 6               /var            /var
>
>         IDE #2  Partition       Label           Mount Point
>                 1               /var/poptemp    /var/poptemp
>                 2               /var/mail       /var/mail
>
> The /etc/fstab:
>
> # <file system>         <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc                    /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> LABEL=/                 /       ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1


>
>         # kopt=root=/dev/hda1           becomes
>         # kopt=root=LABEL=/

I think Alex is right, that you should rebuild the initrd. But the
other thought that occurs to me is perhaps using "/" as a label
is a problem. 

.02

A

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