On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:37:42AM -0400, Ian! D. Allen wrote: > My students have Linux on caddy drives that they plug in various places. > Of course, /etc/fstab on the caddy is wrong half the time; since, the > caddy drive may be on the primary IDE controller on one machine (/dev/hda > or /dev/hdb) and on the secondary IDE controller (/dev/hdc or /dev/hdd) > on another. Assuming you can edit the GRUB boot line to point at the > new location for the root partition, the system dies reading the wrong > things out of /etc/fstab. > One solution would be to 'label' the partitions using e2label, and putting, for example : LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 In the /etc/fstab. The root partition can be mounted by using /dev/root in place of the device name to get it properly named from the kernel command line. Regards, -- Kyle McMartin, bofh [ at ] engsoc [ dot ] org