Hi, This is for experimentation. Setup : 2 HD's - hde & hdg .Mdk9.0 on second HD - hdg6 Remove drive one. Using GRUB bootdisk - booting hdg6 which is now changed to hde6. Before this (after file backup) I edited the fstab that the references to the previous partiton hdg6 now is hde6.(Wel I think it should be hde - I have no way to find out- no system running) When booting I edit the references in this menu-option to refer to (hd0,5) & hde6. It boots fine untill it displays : kernel panic . No init found. Try passing init=options to kernel. Ok if all is normal this line should read INIT : version xxx Well even before this some other errors creep in - like from mounting reiserfs it becomes a lot of errors.(If mounting failed then no file can be found?) OK this is absolutely new ground to me - know nothing about kernel parrams/etc. When this happened the first time I did the fstab changes hoping this wil trick the kernel. (ha-ha). System search revealed several int files/directories several places. Cat the one in /etc/sysconfig/init refers to colors and some stuff but no partition. When does fstab come in while booting. I also tried mapping but only one drive - map to what?. It is easy to trick DOS. It seems that a lot more or not possible to trick linux. Maybe there is to much involved that makes linux "drive and partition" specific. If this means a major overhaul it will not be worth the effort. Like a new install or whatever if this situation arises. Please what else need be edited or whatever to make this work?. Maybe I am expecting to much? Johan
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