Interesting recovery frustrations

[Basil Chupin]

On 16/12/2010 23:26, Rashkae wrote:
> On 10-12-15 03:07 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
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>> I kind of fumbled around for a while, trying to "recover" /, not
>> entirely sure what to do, eventually gave up on that and rebooted.
>> Same things, except this time I told it to skip the disk check, and
>> voila - everything is copacetic.
>>
> And a day later, i figured out what your problem was, which was never Grub.
>
> When you used your exiting partitions to install RHEL, those partitions
> were re-formatted with a new UUID (As I'm sure you realized).. you
> corrected this in Grub, but you seem to have completely neglected to
> update your /etc/fstab file, which is why the disk check failed, (and
> other partitions might be failing to mount.)  Use sudo blkid to get a
> listing of all current UUID's on your system, and make certain that all
> filesystems in /etc/fstab have the correct UUID.

And which I personally think is a heap of horse manure to have the disks 
identified by UUID.

There were no hassles with things when it came to 
changing/adding/removing HDs until this UUID crap came along. Now there 
is nothing but hassles.

Yes, I do see the benefits of using UUID, but the negatives far 
out-weight any positives.

I've changed my fstab to use the "old way" to identify HDs and haven't 
had a single problem when the system(s) boot(s) - all HDs are identified 
correctly.

BC

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