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[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

søn, 12.12.2004 kl. 17.55 skrev Manu Abraham:
> On Sun December 12 2004 4:45 pm, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > 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.
> That's what i temporarily did to solve the problem...
> 
> Manu
> 

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