Re: dd problems.

["Andrew Parker" <andrewparker bigfoot com>]

On 8/30/07, Karl Larsen <k5di zianet com> wrote:
>     The last boot I had the COPY! of this F7 running it appears. All the
> new mail went to that Hard Drive and all the odd things that happened
> have stopped when I removed the New Hard Drive. I checked grub.conf and
> fstab and they are normal now. I noticed that google came up funny so
> that adds credence to the fact although I planned to boot up the old F7
> it didn't work.
>
>     So now it will be a flurry of reboot to see if I can figure out what
> happened. I wonder if the file system is ok on the New Hard Drive?

You can get this confusion when you use labels in your grub config
and/or fstab and the disks have more than one partition using the same
label.

This easily happens if you take a disk out of one system and add it to
another with the same distribution on it.