On Friday 28 March 2008 01:23:50 am Andrew Farris wrote:
John M Cavallo wrote:
> When installing Fedora 9 onto an existing partition that already has a
> label, the installer will change the label to "/". If there is an
> existing partition with this label the system will fail to boot. If there
> is an existing installation on the computer that uses the labels in its
> fstab, it will fail to boot as well. Could the custom partition editor
> either keep the existing label or allow the user to set the partition
> label with the existing label as a default?
The F9 system /etc/fstab should have had UUIDs rather than labels specified
to mount the partitions. Is that not the case after your install? Having
two partitions labeled '/' should work fine.
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The problem isn't with Fedora 9, it with the other
installations of Fedora on
that computer. They use the previous standard of LABEL=??? and fail to boot.
I thought that previous versions of the installer would honor the existing
labels, at least I have never noticed this problem before.
I was mistaken about Fedora 9 failing to boot, there was another problem which
I have since cleared up.