Clone drive problem
 

I cloned /dev/sda to /dev/sdb using g4l. The cloning worked but now at boot the system detects duplicate / system and will not mount any root file system as rw only ro.

I haven't had a lot of time to troubleshot this problem. I'm hoping someone has ran into this problem before.



TIA

I'm not at all familiar with this software, but did you change the fstab on either of the drives so that they're not both trying to mount '/' from themselves?

Yep, I commented out all entries for that drive [/dev/sdb] in the fstab. Which is the baffling part, somewhere along the boot process it finds /dev/sdb1 and give the error about duplicate / [root] file systems.

Did you comment them in the fstab on sdb as well? I know you shouldn't *have to*, but I'd try it.

I'm sure what is happening here is that fstab is using a label for /, not a device name. Find a statement that says something like
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults
and replace
LABEL=/
with /dev/sdg1

HTH