[WBEL-users] 2nd disk

[John Lowry]

Kirby,

Not a var to be found:
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/sda                /mnt/flash              vfat noauto,user 0 0

but.....as both the Suse and WB disks should have '/' as a label, that's
probably the problem.  Interesting, as I recall, that mandrake and suse don't
have problems with this....

--John




On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:18:27AM -0700, John Lowry wrote:
> >
> > Kirby,
> >
> > I think your point about the label being the culprit is probably right.  I'll
> > look at that when I next need to do it.  /etc/fstab doesn't have any hdb in it,
> > so I didn't suspect anything there, but the boot sequence did complain about
> > label(s).  Dmesg didn't save the errors, unfortunately :-(
>
> What is in /etc/fstab?
>
> Probably a line that looks a lot like this:
>
> LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults 1 2
>
> If that is the case, I'll bet /dev/hdb and /dev/hda have a
> filesystem with "/var" as the label.  If that is what is in your
> /etc/fstab, just go change it to be:
>
> /dev/hdaX               /var                    ext3    defaults 1 2
>
>     Thanks,
>         Kirby
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 08:52:09AM -0700, John Lowry wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Friends,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to mount my old suse 8.1 drive as hdb on my WhiteBox machine.  Both
> > > > disks boot independently.  However, booting White Box fails because apparently
> > > > it wants to mount hdb as /var, and gets lots of read only file system warnings.
> > > >
> > > > Any ieas?
> > >
> > > I've never used SuSe in my life, however, I've had somewhat similar
> > > problems when putting two RHL disks into the same machine.  The
> > > problem was actually disk labels.
> > >
> > > You'll want to check that the BIOS disks are what you want.  You
> > > might try booting into single user mode, or emergency mode (add
> > > "single" or "emergency" to the end of your boot commands in GRUB).
> > >
> > > Emergency will mount your root filesystem and give you a root shell
> > > so you can do investigation (it won't fsck your filesystem even if
> > > it needs it, so use with caution).  It is one way to get control of
> > > a machine that you need to, even if what you are doing is unsafe.
> > > I've used it before to turn DMA on for an fsck, because hdparm is
> > > run after fsck is run on your filesystems.  Saved myself several
> > > hours of downtime.
> > >
> > > It sure sounds like the culprit is in your /etc/fstab (that's what
> > > it uses to pick where you mount what partition).  It'd be more
> > > helpful if you gave a full error message, a bit more context of
> > > where it is in the boot cycle, and the contents of your /etc/fstab.
> > >
> > > Boot each machine and run e2label /dev/hdaX on each partition (where
> > > X is the partition number).  If any two from the two machines are
> > > identical, and your /etc/fstab uses that label, that's your problem.
> > >
> > > Your symptoms don't exactly match mine, as RH would pick the wrong
> > > root filesystem.  However, the differences might be accounted for by
> > > SuSe being the other disk.
> > >
> > >     Thanks,
> > >         Kirby
> > >
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