Re: disklabel

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre solution-forge net>]

søn, 12.12.2004 kl. 13.16 skrev Manu Abraham:
> Hi,
> 	I had a machine running RH9 and a 120GB SATA HDD. The HDD was ailing and 
> occassionally giving out sector not found {Drive ready,Seek failure} errors. 
> So i thought it was time to move in to FC3 and a new 160GB SATA HDD.
> 
> Bootup of FC3 gave me a kernel crash, and an error complaining about 
> suggesting acpi=off, but even with acpi=off, still gave me the same warning 
> and a crash..
> 
> I then later on figured that the SATA Enhanced mode operation would be a 
> problem and switched it to compatibility mode. The motherboard is an ASUS 
> P4C800, Intel 875 chipset.. Lo it worked....
> 
> That went fine through.... No problems even though initially i thought not to 
> edit /etc/fstab by hand because it was generated by fstab-sync ? I went on to 
> edit it by hand...
> 
> Everything went smoothly...
> 
> 
> Now i figured that i required some files more were there on the old HDD, than 
> compared to the backup i had...
> 
> I plugged in the OLD SATA HDD has Primary Slave, and the NEW SATA HDD as 
> Primary master.  
> 
> The initscripts failed stating about duplicate LABEL=/, LABEL=/boot, 
> LABEL=/work...
> 
> and a hung system...
> 
> I know that if i modify the disklabels to actual device names my problems 
> would be solved...
> 
> But, what i would like to know is whether a graceful way of doing it exists, 
> without much hassle... I know that this is not much of an issue, but still 
> thought it would be better if i posted the problem...
> 
> Manu

Comment out the lines, add new lines for the same stuff. Then plug it
in, boot, mount the volumes, copy the stuff, shutdown, unplug, and
uncomment the lines again.