A change of scene. Hou about a linux question?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Rick Bowers wrote:
> I run my mail server on an e-smith (Mitel networks) server.  It's based 
> on RedHat linux.
> 
> I've re-installed the software recently  because the upgrade wouldn't 
> work.  I installed to a new disk, and have the old disk in the server, 
> also.  To get my files from the old disk, I
> 
> mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1
> mount /dev/hdc6  /mnt/hdc6
> 
> Here is the problem.  During the boot process, the system is, for some 
> reason, mounting /dev/hdc6 on /
> I've looked around and don't see any reason this is happening.   There 
> is nothing in /etc/fstab.  /etc/grub.conf shows root=/dev/hda3
> 
> I don't  know how to run grub, so maybe the issue is there.
> Any thoughts?  What other information would be useful to help debug this?

I may be wrong, but I thought that grub.conf went in /boot/grub/.  fstab shows

/dev/ROOT       /               xfs     noatime                 0 0

and /boot/grub.conf

kernel (hd0,2)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-xfs-r3 root=/dev/hda3

so that root gets resolved properly.  Of course. this is gentoo...

     -- Alma