[CentOS] Re: Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu Feb 14 20:14:51 UTC 2008


on 2/14/2008 10:38 AM Steven Haigh spake the following:
> 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 ;)
> 
> --
Why not do a software raid with the drives? That way it is constantly up to 
date instead of a nightly rsync.

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