December 15th, 2003 5 Comments

Funny things happen if you add a second disk with a live Linux install to to your existing Red Hat install – the system gets confused with double LABEL=\ and starts hissing, spitting and boots into the wrong Linux install among other things ;)

The solution to this (thanks to ) is to edit the grub.conf and replace LABEL=\ with the real device name like \dev\hda1 and also do the same in the fstab file.

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  1. sidcarter says:
    December 15, 2003 at 1:08 am

    you mean! :)

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  2. tsk1979 says:
    December 15, 2003 at 7:24 am

    scary hat

    This is the problem with Red Hat. They always like to break things. Infact i have had instances where restarting the computer made things fine ;-)
    Looks like they are taking this looks like windoze thing a bit too far :) )

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  3. bluesmoon says:
    December 15, 2003 at 8:51 pm

    I think you mean /
    hmm…

    anyway, whoever came up with the idea of using volume labels to identify a partition in /etc/fstab and other files must be really daft. not only does it cause confusion when you have two partitions with the same label, it is also very hard to tell which partition is mounted where without doing a tune2fs on all partitions.

    the first thing i do after installing is to change LABEL=* to /dev/hd*

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