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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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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