I babbled: Hi everyone Ok, after a couple of days of searching google, usenet, etc. I am offically stuck. A little background info first: I have 5 ide devices. hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd are on the motherboard's IDE controler. The fifth device, hde, was a Maxtor drive hung off of an Adaptec 1200A IDE card. Since there is only on disk connected to this card, ther is no raid involved. This is a dual boot system where hda is XXXindows, hdb is Fedora Core, hdc and hdd are CD-ROMS, and hde is a shared drive between the 2 OS's. Now everything was just peachy until the Adaptec card Bombed on me. I had a spare Maxtor Ultra 133 card that I replaced it with. If the maxtor card is installed, regardless of whether I have a disk attatched or not. Fedora fails to boot. It gives a Kernel Panic: no init found. Remove the card, Fedora Boots fine. Help please Alexander was helpful with suggesting: I bet the IDE devices through the new Maxtor controller card becomes first detected devices and thus collides with previous device order. Two possibilities: a) try to change the device order through BIOS setting (if that is possible), on board controllers have to be primary b) change devices in /etc/grub.conf and /etc/fstab to fit with new controller order. _____________________________ Thanks for the reply. I found via google that the Maxtor card has a bad habit of switching the order that the IDE drives are detected. The motherboards BIOS settings are correct: my 1st hard drive is hda, etc. There is no way to change the settings on the Maxtor card. So, I figure that the Maxtor card is flat overriding the motherboard's BIOS. I then pull out my handy Fedora CD to boot into linux rescue to make changes to lilo.conf and/or /etc/fstab. After I boot, all my devices are in the correct order?! Is there a way to boot and find how pivot_root is mounting devices and make any heeded changes there? Since the fedora CD detected everything correctly, will a reinstall of fedora put everything back in check. Again, Thanks immensely for your help! Atrus
