> Look at the tune2fs -j option. Thanks, that's what I was looking for. > If the BIOS can boot from the hard drive, then it should not be a > problem. The only thing that you may have to be careful of is that > you may need a /boot partition that is conpletely below the 1028 > cylinder boundary, depending on how old the BIOS is. If the system > only has SCSI drives, it could be that the BIOS does not support > booting from SCSI drives, and that SCSI controllers do not have > their own BIOS. It is also possible that both controllers have their > own BIOS, and that they do not work well together. You may have to > do some research to set things up so the correct one is booting the > system. Yes, I think this is the case, when BIOS doesn't support booting from SCSI drives. On that machine there is also an IDE drive /dev/hdc do you think that putting GRUB on it's Master Boot Sector will allow it to boot from an SCSI partition? Thanks for help Przemek -- AIKIDO TANREN DOJO - Warszawa - Mokotow - Ursynow - Natolin - Kabaty info: http://www.tanren.pl/ tel.: 0-506-61-31-47 email: dojo@xxxxxxxxx NOK (Natolinski Osrodek Kultury), ul. Na Uboczu 3, tel.: (22) 648 65 81