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   Nikos Chantziaras to J.O. Aho   
   Re: fsck tries to check non-existent dis   
   13 Jul 08 20:00:14   
   
   From: realnc@arcor.de   
      
   J.O. Aho wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   mtab was indeed using wrong device names (even after deleting it).  For   
   some reason LABEL= doesn't seem to work as expected.  I switched to   
   using /dev/disk/by-label (see my other post) and it works now.   
      
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