On Wednesday 26 July 2006 22:16, Barry McLarnon wrote: > I just thought of another possibility that could explain this weirdness. I > have two identical 250 MB SATA drives on this system. I use one drive as a > mirrored backup of the other drive. Rather than use RAID, I use rsync > periodically to do the mirroring. I haven't done this since doing the > kernel update, so the mirror drive still has the old kernel on it. The > strange behaviour I'm seeing could be explained if the system was initially > booting from the mirror drive (/dev/sdb), and then mounting the first drive > (/dev/sda) to continue the boot process. I guess I should try swapping the > boot order of the two drives in the BIOS and see what happens. D'oh! Just to wrap this up... the problem was indeed in the BIOS - changed the boot order of the drives (250 GB, not MB!), and all is well now. Sorry for wasting everyone's time! Barry -- Barry McLarnon VE3JF Ottawa, ON