Incredible frustration at Grub/linux!

[Fraser Campbell]

On Monday 22 December 2003 11:26, Madison Kelly wrote:

>    I want to do one, little simple thing - make a backup of '/' to
> another drive/partition and then reboot using it. It seems that
> absolutely no matter what I do, what file I edit or what I try to force
> the system (Fedora Core 1) INSISTS on using the original '/' (in this
> case '/dev/sda1'). I don't what the heck I am doing wrong but I am about
> to blow a gasket. I have never been so fsck'ing mad at Linux before. Why
> is it so damn hard to mount a different '/' partition?!

Does fedora do have that irritating fstab that mounts filesystems by label 
instead of device?

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