On 7/17/05, Loren H. Burlingame <there.can.be.only.two.apparently at gmail.com> wrote: > because windows loads the FS driver before everything else. > > You can get the same results in Linux if you make a custom initrd > image to load the kernel module before the kernel needs to start > accessing the disk. oh, and as for grub. I don't recall having this problem, but then I was not working with SATA. I would just throw a little PATA drive in there and just set that up with /boot. problem solved. -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock)