[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > I'm trying to add another ide harddisk to my workstation. It has linux > installed to it. I set it as primary slave. My bios boot was set-up to > boot on the primary master. > My HDD master was fc2 and the slave was fc5. > When I'm trying to boot my system...I got a lot of errors...one of the > error is "duplicate /"..then it wont start on gui (which it should), > then it brings me to init 3. > How can I fix this error? My plan is to mount a /backup partition of my > slave drive.
Both of your disks use ext2fs filesystem labels, which IMHO are one of the the most ridiculous things that Red Hat has decided to come up with (they're the only distribution maker I know of that actually uses them in /etc/fstab and ). Presumably the root devices (I suppose they must be /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1) both have the label '/', and the Red Hat boot process is now confused as to which of these devices it should mount as your root partition. I suppose it guessed wrong and booted with your fc5 drive mounted as root, with all sorts of fantastic errors. Boot your fc5 drive alone first, and then use e2label or tune2fs to change the labels so that they don't conflict (you'll no longer be able to boot the old fc5 drive again unless you modify /etc/grub.conf and /etc/fstab to reflect the new labels), and then you can boot fc2 with the old fc5 drive as slave without any problems, and you can mount the slave drive and make backups more easily. I can think of no sane reason to conceal the actual device that gets mounted by hiding it behind a label; this makes administrating block devices harder than it should be. -- Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
