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   J.O. Aho to Nikos Chantziaras   
   Re: fsck tries to check non-existent dis   
   13 Jul 08 07:50:23   
   
   From: user@example.net   
      
   Nikos Chantziaras wrote:   
   > I have a Gentoo installation that I'm trying to make bootable in 2   
   > different machines.  On the first machine, the hard disk is seen as   
   > /dev/sda; the root partition becomes /dev/sda1 and swap /dev/sda2.  On   
   > the second machine the disk is seen as /dev/sdc and root is /dev/sdc1   
   > while swap is /dev/sdc2.   
   >   
   > Probably I'm doing something wrong here. :P   
      
   Out over what Aragorn wrote, check that the mtab is clean of the old device   
   names. Secondly the device.map may be using the "wrong" device names too,   
   which can give you yet more headache.   
      
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