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*

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 :))