\_ SMTP quoth Bill Warner on 8/26/2002 12:16 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ Yes that is the root of the problem. You will have to check the grub \_ boot loader config to find out how to pass the hdc=ide-scsi command to \_ the kernel at boot time. I use lilo so I don't know how to do it in \_ grub. Edit the kernel line as follows as appropriate kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-31 ro root=/dev/hda9 hdc=ide-scsi mem=nopentium YMMV. David