Much thanks to nDiScReEt, Bascule, Steve Browne, Brian Parish, Larry Sword, and Pross(who got in at the last moment).
We got it fixed. The problem was that I followed the howto at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html to upgrade my HD. Following directions, I used a _temporary_ lilo config for the initial booting of the new HD. In the config, the line _append="hdb=ide-scsi"_ was omitted. Thus, I had not re-corrected my lilo config. nDiScReEt's post below opened my eyes. The second I seen it, I knew what it was. I'm now kicking myself (HARD). Thanks to all Dave nDiScReEt said onto me: ------------------------------------------------------------------ |In that same link I had sent earlier it made reference to making sure that |you are loading that same cdwriter driver at boot up like the below line: | |<snip> | |image=/boot/zImage-2.2.14 | label=Linux | read-only | append="hdb=ide-scsi" | |Listing: Example configuration for lilo (/etc/lilo.conf) | |linux "Linux 2.1.14" { | image=/boot/zImage-2.0.37 | cmdline= root=/dev/hda5 readonly hdb=ide-scsi |} | |Listing: Example configuration for chos (/etc/chos.conf) | |</snip> | |-- |------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Altoine B |Maximum Time Unlimited |Chicago Based and Operated |------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Nine megs for the secretaries fair, |Seven megs for the hackers scarce, |Five megs for the grads in smoky lairs, |Three megs for system source; | |One disk to rule them all, |One disk to bind them, |One disk to hold the files |And in the darkness grind 'em. |--------------------------- |2.4.18-13mdk |Mandrake Linux release 8.3 (Cooker) for i586 |------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
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