i do have know the right kernel (vmlinux-2.4.6-benh) able to recognized my IDE disk attached to the Sonnet Tempo ATA/66. booting up works except the fact the partition isn't good .. here is my partition map : Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/scsi2.2' #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118 4: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192 5: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704 6: Apple_HFS sans titre 22517155 @ 1216 ( 10.7G) 7: Apple_HFS Sans_titre 614400 @ 22518371 (300.0M) 8: Apple_Free Extra 22033825 @ 23132771 ( 10.5G) 9: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 262128 @ 45166596 (128.0M) 10: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 22123953 @ 45428724 ( 10.5G) 11: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 A/UX Root 22517153 @ 67552677 ( 10.7G) 12: Apple_Free Extra 10 @ 90069830 what is the name i should enter in this case : /dev/sdc11 /dev/hdg11 /dev/ide11 ??? the name used by pdisk (scsi2.2) isn't working ... -- Yvon bricole... <yvon.bricole@pobox.com>