Been running into some issues with a couple of machines I'm trying to set up and I can't figure it out. I've looked at two different books: Slackware Linux Unleashed (Sam's Publishing) and Linux System Administration Black Book (Coriolis), along with Slackware website, and have only found a partial answer. Here's the scenario: I have two machines I'm trying to install Slackware 7.1 on. The first one is an old Gateway P120- 32MB ram, SCSI CD-ROM (ID6), 200MB SCSI HDD (ID4 or 5), and two 800MB IDE HDD's. Second machine is an old Compaq ODP-83, 32MB RAM, 400MB IDE drive, 200MB SCSI HDD. When trying to install Slackware on the first machine, I can get it to do so successfully if I do one of the following: 1) Leave all HDD's in the machine, and put LILO to a floppy. It'll boot successfully, and work fine. 2) Remove second IDE and SCSI HDD's and put LILO to the hard drive. With the first scenario, if I try to configure the LILO.conf file on the HDD, then boot up I get nothing but scrolling 0's and 1's and it won't boot to the OS. Put the floppy back in and it boots fine. In the second scenario, if I put the other two HDD's in the system after the install it boots fine until I modify the fstab file. I add the two drive into fstab ( /dev/hdb and /dev/sda both set to ext2 and then settings of 1 and then boot sequence). I can then fdisk the IDE HDD and I think I was able to fdisk the SCSI one once. Upon reboot, I get an error saying that /dev/sda? doesn't exist. It will let me continue on with single user mode and I can do basic functions, and also can do fdisk on the two IDE drives. If I try to fdisk the SCSI, it says something about procedure doesn't exist or some such thing and then it goes into funky command line mode. I've been wracking my brain on this for the past few days, and can't figure out what's going on. The fist machine is going to be my DNS/DHCP/print/dial-in/file storage server. The second machine will be my firewall. I haven't tried on my second machine as that I need to install from the network, but I'd assume I'd run into the same scenario as the first. Any help on this would be appreciated. Could someone either explain to me the procedure to add in new HDD's to a machine properly, or what I need to do to get my system to boot successfully of a HDD instead of a floppy. Shawn