LABEL=bug won't boot properly

[satovey]

I added a hard drive with a linux
version on it. When I boot the
system it gives me the following
error messages and then drops me
to the shell.

I also get the follwoing error message
prior to all this happening.

LABEL=/ duplicate - not mounted

I read a thread that talked about
this and even though I followed the
information and changed grub.conf
to read root=/dev/hda1, the thread
did not specify how fstab needed
to be changed in order for this to
work.

I would appreciate it if someone
could clarify exactly how fstab
needs to be edited in order for
this to work without having to
make a total system change concerning
lables.

Thanks in advance.

scott

[satovey]

Oops,

I forgot to mention that I am using
FC2.


Scott

[Mat]

/dev/hda1 is your first harddrive, are you sure, that's where your Fedora is on?

however, in your fstab put the same string you used in grub.conf, something like

"/dev/hda1 / ext3 default ...."

[satovey]

Originally Posted by Mat

/dev/hda1 is your first harddrive, are you sure, that's where your Fedora is on?

Yes, I only had one drive in at the
time I installed FC2. I am using the
Mitel SME distro and it will kill
all the partitions on all drives
and format them when you install it,
So I disconnected all hard drives except
for hda to make sure I didn't lose any
data. There's no telling why the Mitel
distro did this but I was none to pleased.

Originally Posted by Mat

however, in your fstab put the same string you used in grub.conf, something like

"/dev/hda1 / ext3 default ...."

Thanks for the info. I tried this and still got an
error. But since I just commented out my previouse
attempt, I see that I made some errors.
I put /dev/hda1/ / ext2 ......

I get a can't resolve /boot error.

So would the boot line be:

/dev/hda1/boot /boot ext2 yada yada yada?

I'll try it just cause I'm messing with it
right now.

Scott

[satovey]

Originally Posted by satovey

I put /dev/hda1/ / ext2 ......

I get a can't resolve /boot error.

So would the boot line be:

/dev/hda1/boot /boot ext2 yada yada yada?

I'll try it just cause I'm messing with it
right now.

Scott

Ok, I figured it out.
So fstab needs to read as follows:

/dev/hda1/ / ext2 ......
/dev/hda1 /dev/hda2/boot ext2 defaults 1 2

This works,
The system is booted.
Posting this reply so you know I fugured
it out, and so people can find the solution

Scott

[satovey]

Originally Posted by satovey

Ok, I figured it out.
So fstab needs to read as follows:

/dev/hda1/ / ext2 ......
/dev/hda1 /dev/hda2/boot ext2 defaults 1 2

This works,
The system is booted.
Posting this reply so you know I fugured
it out, and so people can find the solution

Scott

Sometimes I am so slow.

So for us who are sometimes so slow I provide the following.
The LABLE line in fstab is nothing but a dummied down if
statement. Here's what it says without showing you:

Here's the line:
LABLE=/ /boot ext2 defaults 1 1

Here's what it means:
if the partition name = / then mount it to /

Here's the second line:
LABLE=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2

Here's what it means:
if the partition name = /boot then mount it to /boot

Now here's how to transfer that to using the /dev/hda*

On a standard single drive install FC2 lables
hda1 as /boot and hda2 as /.

So to eliminate the LABLE command in fstab
the lines must be changed as follows.


/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2

This tells the kernel to mount hda2 to /
which is the root of the file system and
to mount hda1 to /boot which is where they
are mounted when using the LABLE format.

Have a nice day

Scott