On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi. The layout of my system is a little strange, this was necessary. It is: > Drive 1 = primary master > CD-ROM = primary slave > Drive 2 = ATA100 primary master > Drive 3 = ATA100 Primary Slave > Drive 4=ATA100 Secondary Master > Drive 5 = ATA100 Secondary slave And now we can solve a huge mystery. The following *should* represent the drive letter vs the designation in linux: 1 - hda cdrom - hdb 2 - hdf 3 - hdg 4 - hdh 5 - hdi The first two are definately correct. But it is a certainty that your drive 3 is *not* hdc. The reason SUSE is able to install is that it is not making you specify the drive position. Suse was one of the first to eliminate the need to understand a very easily misunderstood drive designation. Quite honestly, if you have a distribution installed, I would recomend that you patch the kernel, compile and go on. I shied away from this task for a long time. Then one day decided I had nothing better to do then reinstall if I messed something up. The long and short is that it was actually quite easy. In fact, it is so easy that I would recomend everybody to compile their own kernel. Start with cutting out all the crap in a stock kernel you don't use. I have cut boot time significantly be eliminating the stuff in a stock kernel that my machine doesn't use anyway. I cut it further by building in things like network card support directly. Sure I made mistakes along the way. I also found my own way of tracking what I have done. I discovered that there is no need to name my kernel vmlinuz. I discovered that there is no need to pout a softlink in the root directory to this. I discovered that I can name my kernel to indicate the version number and date if I choose. You can find out a lot by playing here. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when open. If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.
