Hello SuSE people,    Basic info: Until recently I had 3 SuSE OS's running on my box. 10.2, 11.0, (KDE3) and 11.2 (KDE4) I played with 11.2 and it was OK but didn't like KDE4 very much and hoping it would improve. This is not a flame! So back off ! I want to see KDE4 work the way I want it too.    So I "upgraded" 11.2 to 11.3. Disaster! Nothing worked right. Reinstalled 11.3 as a new "clean" install. (losing all of my configurtions from 11.2) a  slightly less disaster. Wouldn't boot except in "safe mode" and a startx. Regular boot complained about the nouveau driver and dumped me out and shut down. Once inside, in safe mode, I began to investigate. Three different kernels in boot , which i cleaned out except for the latest one. Seven different device mappers which varied considerably. Nine different menu.lsts which all varied, (why is that? why so many?) (does something search all of them ?) and the Yast partitioner incorrectly identified the hard drives  (2 pata and one sata) differently from the other 3 OS's which were correct.  It also didn't show all of the bootable common partitions of all the other OS's. I have 5 such partitions which are common and mountable to any of the  other OS's for datastorage, workspace etc. where I can put things from one  OS and access it from another.    Isn't the partitioner "global"? The same for any SuSE OS on the computer?  The others used it "globally" invoking all of the "labels" and "fstab" entries. Set me straight on this. I'm afraid to correct the partitioner in 11.3 for fear of screwing up the other OS's.    Hope somebody can set me straight on the basics.    Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org