[nmglug] Using Media Bay Devices In Dell 600m With Fedora Core 3

[Sam Noble]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 13:46 -0600, William D. Nystrom wrote:
> > Sounds like the problem is that you've got two drives both using
> e2label
> > and your fstab and probably your grub config are trying to use those
> > labels rather than actual device names.
> 
> Thanks for the info.  It seems to me that /etc/fstab is actually
> getting
> written when I reboot with a different configuration.

The fancy project utopia stuff (udev, hald, pmount, gnomeVFS
etc.[Karlheg seems to know this stuff real well and probably knows which
actual 'thingy' is coming in to play here.]) is probably only making
changes for the removable devices so I'd go ahead and make the changes
by hand for all the /dev/hda devices. 

> >
> > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=791
> > Not:
> > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz root=Label=/ ro vga=791
> >
> > and in fstab you should have stuff like:
> >
> > /dev/hda6     /usr      ext3    defaults,error...
> > Not:
> > Label=/usr    /usr      ext3     defaults,err...
> >
> > See?
> 
> This seems like a simple thing to try.  Is this a good thing in
> general to
> do or should I save the original copy of grub.conf and restore it
> after
> I am done with this exercise?

I'm not a fan of using Label=x in config files. I think the flexibility
it provides is easily overshadowed by the likelihood of it causing
problems. For instance I don't know a way to get a kernel to boot on a
system with that syntax in fstab without using an initrd. Or your
problem here is another 'for instance'. And I don't think it works at
all in software raid setups. So in total I'd say make the switch to
specific /dev/x entries and never look back. But of course a
grub.conf.BAK file hanging out in /boot/grub is not going to hurt
anything so feel free to back it up for peace of mind :)

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