On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:59:41PM -0400, Alex @ Avantel Systems wrote: > Isn't there a step in between - initrd - which loads the drivers needed to > access the disk? If the correct drivers aren't available the disks can't be > seen. An initrd is a ramdisk mounted by the kernel on initial boot, before the root filesystem. It is not used by grub. Grub loads it into an area of memory that the kernel can use. > The default install couldn't see the disks either - I had to load the modules > manually and then the install was able to complete OK. > > Assuming that some specific modules are needed to see the disks, how do I fix > that? I'm assuming I need a different set of drivers in initrd but how do I > get there from here? Since you're not even getting as far as grub, adding drivers to the initrd won't help. Again, I don't know what to suggest, other than lilo (which is the bootloader used by RH 7.2, so it should work.) Cheers, Jody