Hi all: I have been working on (playing with) my linux box and am in something of a small pickle. It is a test box I use for my AVCE students so I tend to install and uninstall Linux quite a lot so they can see a real OS being worked with. It was working basically with 2 partitions on 1 drive (SuSE and a.n.other). I have now installed one Linux as hda1 and hda2 and then installed SuSE. I had installed some other Linux before but reformatted the SuSE partition. However, SuSE has assigned its partitions as hde3 (swap) and hde6. The other Linux boots as hda1 but I am using the SuSE partition to boot. I install the other Linux partition with SuSE but can only assign it to boot hde1. As the other partition boots up it gets to the root section and has a kernel panic as it can't find hde1. If I change the settings in fstab in the SuSE partiton to hda3 and 6 and the others to hda1 and 2, will this reset all of it or is ther another configuration file? I believe, though I don't know, that it also looks at the install logs of SuSE in which case it will not boot at all as it has hda in the fstab and hde somehwere else. Hope this makes sense? Paul