Hi guys,


I have a problem in booting redhat. there's an error appear, it says ; "Couldn't find matching filesystem: LABEL=/file"

then the prompt will appear as I supply the root passwd,

[Repair filesystem] 1 #


please, any help?

badly needed. I'm new in linux.

input the root password, assuming you know it and if you dont then your not root and shouldnt be there.


as for "Couldn't find matching filesystem: LABEL=/file" sound like theres a boot problem, i dont ever rember hearing of something called /file, / maybe but not /file


/ is the root of the entore system it is the point where all thigns run and are mounted. / is a mount point referening a hard drive address or partition.

It's a problem between your boot loader and your fstab. RH idea about root partition is to give to write the partition "number" as a variable in the boot loader so you can change it before booting. This variable is then used by fstab...
The easy fix would be to edit your fstab and to change the "LABEL" thing with the real partition number, I never really understood why they use this crappy LABEL tweak anyways. As example, this is the line relative to my root partition in fstab here :
/dev/hda1 / ext3 default 0 0
(of course you will need to change /dev/hda1 with your actual partition)

PS : try to use a better thread name next time.

RH uses volume labels instead of device IDs in the fstab file when installed. RH uses the mount point as the label i.e. label=/ for the partition where / is installed. The advantage to using labels is that you can move drives or repartition without modifing the bootloader or fstab (well maybe just swap)

The error means it could not find a partition that was labeled as /file. Did you add an entry to your /etc/fstab file? If you want to use labels then you can add it via the tune2fs command. You can also use the dev ID instead of a label ie.
/dev/hdxy /file fstype etc...

BTW "badly needed your help" is not a good thread title