Phil Schaffner said: [...] > Replying to my own post. Just had a "DUHHHH!" moment when I went back > to Paolo's original post in this thread - an eternity ago in the > time-scale of this list. He clearly shows that the disks are /dev/hda > and /dev/hdb which makes me wonder if I'm off in the weeds. > Try it anyway Paolo - just change /dev/sda to /dev/hdb everywhere, in my > last post, but I fail to understand why your system would switch the > master and slave on the same controller as preferred boot devices. Much > easier to understand my problems where I have /dev/hda (original ATA-33 > system disk), /dev/hde (large ATA-100 on HPT-370 IDE motherboard raid > controller), and /dev/sda (current Linux system disk on an Adaptec SCSI > card). Phil, no problem I've understood what you meant. > Anybody else got a clue? As I wrote in my last post, even XP is confused and switch master and slave. -- "if you can dream it, you can do it" -- walt disney