Hi: Dmesg is a command that shows you all the boot messages. It's much easier to read them leasurely rather than trying to comprehend them as they go by. You can for example type something like: dmesg |more And study the results. I don't know how it's achieved, but my system at least prints up all located drives in my system as it goes through boot-up, regardless of whether it goes on to mount them or not, so you might find it in there somewhere. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701
