A wild guess, do you have root = /dev/root in your grub.conf, lilo.conf? Steve
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Brian Downey wrote: > Hey folks, > > It's not a very big issue that I'm having here, just one that'd I'd like > to be able to explain the behavior of. > > One of my servers is mounting '/dev/sda3' as '/dev/root' instead. Pretty > bizzare. Here's the output of `df`: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/root 8119776 2930244 4777064 39% / > /dev/sdb1 35001508 11298308 21925208 35% /home > none 452068 0 452068 0% /dev/shm > > > And the relevant section of `/etc/fstab`: > > # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. > /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1 > /dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 0 > /dev/sdb1 /home ext3 noatime 0 0 > /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > both symlinks are pointing to the correct device: > > # ls -al /dev/sda3 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Aug 16 14:03 /dev/sda3 -> > scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 > > # ls -al /dev/root > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Aug 16 14:02 /dev/root -> > scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 > > Just curious why it would be showing as "/dev/root" when it should be > mounting as "/dev/sda3". This is the only server I have that behaves like > this... > > thanks! > -brian > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Steve Traylen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
