On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 17:50 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > I'd just make sure the drives in the caddy had distinctive labels on > all their partitions, myself! :¬)
They do have!! And the problem still occurs. I'm booting from the SATA drive partition that appears as /dev/sdb1, and for some weird reason, automount then tries to mount the partition that is on /dev/sda at '/' where the boot filesystem (at /dev/sdb1) is already mounted .... makes no sense at all to me, and I know the problem would not be there if I booted from the IDE drive in the caddy. Still, Glen's solution works OK for me. The saga began when my wife's computer died and I gave her the one I mentioned. I put a caddy in so I could swap between her old IDE drive, and a storage drive that I could also swap with my computers. Eventually when I know she no longer needs to access her old drive, I'll swap it for a SATA caddy .... but in the meantime, it's doing what I need it to to do. Regards, Barry Drake. -- Sent from my Dell Netbook using Ubuntu - the window-free environment that gives me real fresh air. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
