but now: grub error [was: Re: [suse-amd64] upgrading 9.0 to 9.1 comes up with /dev/hda instead of /dev/hde error... ]

I had a similar problem when I went from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel. My SATA and ATA drives were "swapped".

ok so i simply edited two lines /etc/fstab from /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 to /dev/hde1 and /dev/hde2 so now suse 9.1 performs the updates, and right now at the very end, it comes up with grub (0.94) error: --- root (hd0,1) error 21: selected disk does not exist install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,1) /boot/grub/menu.lst error 12: invalid device requested quit ---- so now what :(