On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Mike Hicks wrote: > Yeah, look and see if the /proc/ide directory exists, and if there's > anything in there. I'll check tonight along with posting my dmesg. > I'm curious, though, how the system could be booting up without mounting > the disk.. Is there also have a SCSI drive in the system? There's no SCSI hard disks, just a SCSI CD-RW on an AHA-2940. I presume the partitions hda3, hda5 and hda6 are mounting fine since the mount from fstab as the system boots. I have, however, been seeing some odd problems with my MBR. If I reload LILO, linux boots fine but trying to boot off of /dev/hda1 just gives me an infinite loop of "unexpected EOF". If I do an fdisk /mbr and try to install Win98 on hda1, the reboot hangs. Win2K installs fine, but if I reload LILO I have the same EOF message. My current workaround is to set boot=/dev/hda3 instead of /dev/hda in lilo.conf, then do a dd if=/dev/hda3 of=boot.img bs=512 count=1 and boot the boot.img from Win2K's boot.ini. My computer boots fine, I can boot either Win2K or LILO from the Win2K menu. The only down side is that I can't mount /dev/hda1 under linux. Yes, it's formatted FAT32 :-) Now that I can painlessly boot into linux and use my FTP method for copying to and from partitions, this is not such a big issue. It's still bothersome though and I's like to find out what's going on. -Brian