On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 02:54:29PM -0500, Josh Diakun wrote: > Ok, after taking another look I guess I was wrong (it was almost 4am... > I must have been see'ing things :) ), it does not recognize the hard > disk whatsoever. A quick look through /proc/partitions & /proc/ide0/* > does not turn up any information on my hard disk at all. So now I guess > Im left wondering, how do I go about getting it to recognize my hard disk? > if its a 2.6-based installer take a look at /sys/block/sd* and if they exist then these are the probed IDE/ATA devices. If the /sys directory doesn't exist then: mkdir /sys mount -t sysfs none /sys and then take a look mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE