It's a 2.4 kernel, comes standard with the slack 10.2 install cd. I dont know, Im at a loss here for ideas...this one is truely stumping me. Any install CDs off hand you might know of that have a 2.6 kernel? Thanks, Josh Martin Hicks wrote: > 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 >