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...dual-boot desktops which have been created recently using CENTOS 4.4/XP have very rapidly started to exhibit this symptom: The dual-booting (GRUB is the 1Y bootloader) works OK for a while but then on a subsequent reboot from Windows to CENTOS, the boot halts in GRUB with an error message that mkdevlabel could not see label "/1" i.e. the root partition. The fix we adopted was to convert the LABEL references in grub.conf and /etc/fstab to use the "traditional" real device names not the symbolic links pointed to by the LABELs. I do not think that there is any option in the ins...