[CentOS] Re: Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.
Steven Haigh
netwiz at crc.id.au
Thu Feb 14 18:38:21 UTC 2008
I have found the issue with this - and now I feel quite dumb.
In this box, I keep a second HDD (/dev/hdc) which is mirrored nightly from
the primary HDD (/dev/hda).
This is an exact copy - initially created via dd, then kept up to date via
rsync on a nightly basis. This is so that if the primary HDD fails, I can
change the system to use /dev/hdc and be up and running after a
reboot/forced power cycle.
What was happening is that both /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc3 have the LABEL=/ -
which means it would be a random guess as to which one got mounted.
After changing the root=LABEL=/ in grub.conf to root=/dev/hda3, all works
perfectly.
Man I miss the days when we used device names, not labels ;)
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Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz at crc.id.au
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
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