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
> 
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