Ar Llu, 2006-09-04 am 22:02 +1000, ysgrifennodd Grant Coady: > I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab > depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX. Parallel '/' partitions? Mount by label on modern distributions. You can also generally boot far enough to just test by booting a libata kernel with root=/dev/sdawhatever init=/bin/sh Thats enough to get a test shell and poke around and check the boot messages - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html