Used to be that if you wanted to do major things to your normal system while it was 'broken', you could: 1) boot the rescue system from CD or DVD 1 2) mount your root partition on /mnt 3) chroot /mnt 4) Mount your boot partition on /boot and there you would for most purposes have your running system. You could change your fstab or re-install grub or whatever that might be needed. However, with 10.1 and the udev system, the devices are no longer available to you after the chroot. If you do the first 3 steps above, there is no way to do step 4 because there are no hard drives 'seen' by the system. Their definitions are all left behind in the /dev/ of the rescue system. Is there a way around this? One could copy the /dev from the rescue system to the normal system but I am not sure that would work or whether it would be a good idea. A quick look in the starter manual shows no reference to the rescue system. On a 'lab rat', I just did copy the /dev/* from the rescue system over to the normal system (savi9ng the normal /dev first) and it *does* work. But there must be a better way. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com