Jerry Geis wrote: >> Next question: what drive does the system see it as? You can try adding >> rdshell to the end of the kernel line in grub, which gives you a very >> rudimentary shell, and you can see what drive the *system* thinks it is. >> Bet it's not grub's (hd0,0). > > Ok I booted back up this morning with rdshell. > Was looking around and could really tell much. > What exactly am I looking for? > /dev/disk does not exist > I did not see anything disk related in /dev. > I tried to mount /dev/hda1 and /dev/sda1 and got errors on both. > > dmesg gave be output but could not pipe through grep, I could redirect > to file but then did not know how to view the file by page in rdshell. > You need to read the help while in rdshell. For some obscure reason, there doesn't seem to be a man page, at least on the first page of googling, and that after trying a man on it. Try looking at <http://tuxers.com/main/instigating-a-manual-boot-from-the-grub-prompt/> Yes, I know he's ubuntu, but down here, there's not much difference. The tab is *very* useful, since it will try autocomplete. Hope this helps some. mark