<quote who="Daniel">
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>> /etc/fstab is set up properly with /dev/hda3 being mounted to /. I
>> believe
>> that this is too early in the boot process for fstab to be even
>> accessed.
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> fstab is accessed soon after the execution of /sbin/rc
>
>> If I am not mistaken, at the point that this is happening, it is only
>> responding to the kernel options passed from grub.
>
>>I would assume that it
>> is assigning the /dev/ROOT to whatever is passed as the root= in the
>> commandline from grub.
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> both entries under most conditions need to be consistant. There is no
> automatic detection from the grub kernel args.

Okay. My bad on this count.
>
>>I may be wrong here, but, whatever the case, the
>> entries in /etc/fstab are not the issue here.
>
> Just for example my /etc/fstab (using devfs - replace with
> /dev/hd[a-z][1-8]
> as desired).
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> Mine reads:

/dev/hda1   /boot      ext2      noauto,noatime    1 1
/dev/hda2   none       swap      noatime           0 0
/dev/hda3   /          ext3      noatime           0 0

There is also the tmp section as well, but this should be the offending
party, however, it looks right to me. According to fdisk, this is how I
have the disk partitioned. It is also how I had the filesystem mounted to
do the install. I am pretty sure that fstab is not the issue, though I do
not have any better idea.

Not really sure what is up, but, as background, this was happening to me
before whenever I tried to build any software. This is the reason that I
tried to rebuild the entire system. It was a 1.2 to 1.4 upgrade that had
never quite taken to the change. It was a bit buggy, and this was the last
straw.

Anyway, I am trying to build it on another hard drive at the moment, just
in case it is some weird hard drive glitch.

Thanks for the ideas.


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