We'll I've backed myself into a corner during 9.0 install. I put a 2nd HD, /dev/hdb, into an exist machine and installed 9.0. All went well. So next I was going to put that 2nd HD into another machine as /dev/hda. I thought I would edit grub.conf and fstab and it would boot. Right? Not exactly. No doubt I'm about to learn new things. I booted manually the /root partition from the CD and manually mounted the filesystems. Then I discovered I'm not able to edit and save grub.conf or fstab. OK.... Then I noticed using Midnight Commanders Info panel that the files believe they are on /dev/hdb. I've enabled ACL's & Extended Attributes but I don't know if that has anything to do with the problem. Well folks is it reinstall time or is there and easy way out of my own mistake. ------------ Wolter Works - Always Innovating ------------- - Industry and Commerce Internet Invention - Internet Marketing Product Concepts & Implementation mailto:johnswolter@wolterworks.com John Wolter, President 1531 Jones Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48105-1871 USA 1-734-665-1263 Copyright 2003 John S. Wolter Neither this information block, the typed name of the sender, nor anything else in this message is intended to constitute an electronic signature unless a specific statement to the contrary is included in this message.