Trying to get RedHat8.0 working in my test machine
Intel 815 PentIII with Qlogic QLA1080 scsi and 2 IMB DGHS sca type drives. It has worked fine with 7.3 - where I can dd from
one disk to another, and boot on /dev/sda without any worry about what might be on /dev/sdb.

I find what seems a bug in 8.0 that, when a drive with a linux partition is installed as /dev/sdb that the boot fails every time, just prior to mounting all the partitions read/write. If there is a secondary disk with a fat format, the boot will not fail. Is there a way to stop /dev/sdb from being mounted(or ???) at boot time?

Thanks in advance!

Take the references to /dev/sdb out of your fstab file. (/etc/fstab) Then see if that works.

Aaron

Aaron, there are none. The 8.0 drive was built without the secondary drive in place.

What stage of the boot do you get to?

"Remounting root filesystem in read/write mode"

this fails, the screen gets very ugly for a few seconds, and then the system hangs. here's the fstab- maybe I can get what I need
by replacing the label references with hard device names??


LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0