Firstly, let me introduce myself.
My name is Adam, i'm a Systems Admin at a small manuafacturing company in Staffordshire, England. I'm a Windows-Boy, born and raised, but i'm giving linux a go now, i'm really impressed and i wanna make it work for my home storage system.

<cut to the chase>

I decided to give Red Hat 9.0 a try, I was a bit n00bish and mounted the boot partition by mistake, when trying to mount another HDD. Of course this threw up problems upon re-boot.
I started afresh, with no problems, added my second drive, no worries.

The problem now is, accessing the data on the old system disk. I physically attach the drive, boot up RH 9.0 and i get a duplicate label problem.
I'm assuming this is the system throwing a wobbly when it see's 2 partitions with the same label.

I assume i can re-name the /boot partition on my new system drive with e2label, ammend fstab and all will be well, no conflicting names, either that or re-name the old partition on my old system disk, but how can i do that when i can't boot?

Am i thinking in the right direction?
THANK YOU!

Welcome to LQ.

Rather than relying on labels just edit your bootloader config and /etc/fstab and use proper device/partition names like /dev/hda1 etc rather than lables.

Thanks, but remember, i'm a linux n00b, how would i go about that, or can you point me to a webpage that tells me how to do that?
(I'm using GRUB by the way)

Thanks David_Ross

Adam.

In grub.conf replace "root=LABEL=/" with "root=/dev/hda5" assuming hda5 is your / partition. Then in /etc/fstab change the first column to use entries like /dev/hdaX rather than LABEL values.

David.

Words cannot express how thankfull I am for your speedy and helpfull reply!
I've now been able to mount my other system disk and all is working great!

May I also add, what everyone in this community is doing is great, enabling the masses to take advantage of this amazing alternative to MicroShaft!

Why R H 9.0 (and others?) uses /LABEL i do not know, the way in now have it configured is so much more simple to use and understand.

Thanks again.
Adam.

Thanks for your support.

I have no idea why some distros are now using LABEL values, since I have multiple bootin OS's I very rarely use them.