Michael Schwendt >> Here /boot is mounted via its partition label. Which label is applied >> to sda2? Paul Smith: > I do not know. How can I find it out? The e2label command. To see what Michael asked: e2label /dev/sda2 It can also set a label, but the command example I gave will just display the current one. You might want to go through all your partitions, and see what they are. But just looking through this thread, I think you've tangled yourself in a knot. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.