disklabel

[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