A change of scene. Hou about a linux question?

[Net Llama!]

On 09/05/2004 02:52 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 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 

You're right, however redhat/fedora is also symlinking from /etc/ into 
some other location lately for consistancy. I think this is smart, since 
putting any configuration file outside of /etc is generally stoopid, IMO.

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