Hi, all..... I am currently running RH9 and installed this in a WD harddrive. However, I had my previous RH8 installed in my old IBM harddrive. The problem arised when I wanted to mount the Linux partitions of the old IBM so that I can access the old data in my old home directory.... So I went about to connect the old hd back to the system, but then I got hanged when I booted up my system everytime right after the mouting process with bunch of errors.....

When it booted, it gave me these weird messages like there are differerences in the boot sectors, or/and like there are duplicate mount points and the such....

This is my fstab file....

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/usr/local /usr/local ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,r
o 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat defaults 1 2
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/ibm-c vfat defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/ibm-d vfat defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/ibm-e vfat defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb12 /mnt/ibm-root ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb7 /mnt/ibm-boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb10 /mnt/ibm-home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb8 /mnt/ibm-local ext3 defaults 1 2


By the way, I did create the directories for the ibm* mouting points under /mnt/....

Could somebody suggest how I go about to mount the linux partitions of the old IBM harddrive?

With RH7.1, I was able to do this just fine, if I recalled correctly.... I just don't understand what is the best way to solve this... So please help me.... Thank you in advance....

One problem would be duplicate mount points. Look at your fstab you see label=/ / instead of /dev/hdxy /.

Both of your hard drives have partitions with the same labels. Either change the labels back to partitinos in your /fstab or relabel the partitions on the IBM drive.

Thank you for your answer... I think I firgured it out right now.... Thank again..