Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla writes:
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Thanks!
I'll try to do exactly what you suggest.
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.
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