On Monday 19 December 2005 9:50 am, Mark Komarinski wrote:

> >
> > The ways around this that I see include:
> >
> > 1. Use something like Partition Magic to hide the SCSI partition.
> > 2. Format the SCSI disk (since it won't be used anyway.)
> > 3. Change the /etc/fstab to mount by device name rather than label.
> > 4. Change the label on at least one disk.
> >
> > Are there other options that I'm missing? Has anyone else run into
> > this?
>
> I'm not up on my Itanium, but by label, do you mean that your /etc/fstab
> has something like:
>
> LABEL=/     /               ext3    defaults 1 1
>
> In it?  If so, change the label.  If you're not going to boot the
> exiting disk, use e2label to change the label on the existing disk.  You
> can then probably mount the existing disk, change the label in
> /etc/fstab and you'll be all set.
The Itanium uses the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). This is similar to 
GRUB. 
BTW: Dan Will Beck says hello.
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