You've run into the Filesystem Volumne problem. If you used: tune2fs -l /dev/hda1 (or whichever is a Linux partition)
you'll see at the top of the listing: Filesystem volume name: /boot (this is off my system) If you look in /etc/fstab you'll note that this label is used for mounting the partitions. So, if you have multiple partitions with the same filesystem volume you'll get the problem you described. The solution is to boot into single user mode and use: tune2fs -L new_name /dev/hdb1 to give new volume names to the partitions on your older drive you'll be able to boot normally. The just mount the old partitions somewhere to move off the data. Barry "J.R Ong" wrote: > > Greetings everyone, > > I recently got a new hard drive and replaced my old hard drive (which had Red > Hat 7.2 installed on it) with it. I installed Red Hat 8.0 on the new drive > and everything worked smoothly. However, now I need to get some important > data off my old hard drive. I jumpered it up in my PC as a slave drive, but > whenever I try booting my PC, for some reason, GRUB seems to try booting from > it too - it gets confused with the partition mounts and then gets > interminably stuck while trying to load the system logger. > > How do I resolve this problem? Would it be possible for me to re-wire the old > drive as a master again, and then boot up into RH7.2 and change /etc/fstab so > there are no conflicts? I don't understand hardware very well - if I wire a > drive up as a slave, surely it shouldn't try and start up during the boot > process? > > Any suggestions and opinions welcome, as I am at a dead end! > > JIN > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
