Re: can't use a system with two hard disks, both with a linux installation?

[fred smith <fredex fcshome stoneham ma us>]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:25:38PM +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have two hard drives at home, and one has redhat 7.3, the other
> limbo2. Both work fine separately.
> 
> However, when plugging them both and starting the computer, I get the
> message
> mount: LABEL=/ duplicate - not mounted
> 
> The problem is clear, I had to remove 1 hard drive, boot the other,
> change /etc/fstab to use /dev/hdxx instead of LABEL and then both 
> hard drives worked.
> 
> How can this be avoided though?
> Thanks

I would suggest booting one of them, using e2label to change its 
label, changing /etc/fstab to reflect the new label.

But before you reboot !!!!!!!!!!!  make a boot floppy to be sure you
can get back into it in case something goes wrong.

Assuming nothing does (go wrong, that is) you should then be able to
boot either, assuming your lilo.conf or grub.conf is set up right.

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