A friend has an IDE CDROM drive on the fourth (ide3) controller. (Two controllers on motherboard, two more provided by soundblaster card.) During installation we specified: linux ide3=base,ctr,irq (using number in place of base, ctr, and irq - I just don't have the numbers in front of me). The kernel starts loading but we eventually get an "unrecognized kernel option" message and then it displays the ide3= line above. Does the installation kernel on the floppy have support built-in for the third (ide2) and fourth (ide3) controllers? (That would be drives hde-hdh.) I used this option when installing an older version of RedHat and it worked like a charm. (We worked around the problem by moving the CDROM drive to ide1,b ut it is an office machine and the PC support people don't like us opening up the boxes.) Thanks Tony
