Re: Disk label problem?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

tsprad%talent-free-studios.com@localhost (Ted Spradley) writes:

>As long as it's the only disk attached this boots up and works fine:
>But if there is any other drive attached, that other drive gets mounted as root (apparently).

What is on that other drive ?

Here is a rough description of the default boot process:

1. BIOS reads the MBR, usually a BIOS setting that identifies from which drive that is read.
2. The secondary bootloaders are read from the same drive.
3. The kernel is usually read from the same drive.
4. The kernel tries to guess what the root partition is, usually by identifying the partition bootblock.

So "that other drive gets mounted as root" may mean that BIOS boots
from it, or that it gets misidentified by the kernel. The latter
can happen if it is (to some degree) a copy of the first drive.