[CentOS] disk mounting madness

I've got a server running CentOS 4.2; installed as 4.1, kept updated by 
yum.

A few days ago it crashed.

I picked it up from the datacenter, and brought it back to the office, 
where it took a long time to boot because it couldn't find anything.

When it finally booted and I logged in I discovered an interesting 
problem.

Only the / partition had loaded.  /etc/fstab had all the partitions 
recognized by their labels.

Checking the hard drives showed the labels existed.  I even rewrote the 
disk labels.

But the boot procedure couldn't find the drives by their labels.

Nor can a "mount -a" command; it says it can't find the info in fstab 
(though it _is_ there).

But long version mount commands work.

And when I redo the fstab file to list the devices rather than labels, 
everything mounts as it should.

Any ideas?

Jeff
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