Ok, let me explain the entire problem:

During installation, DrakX is identifying my hard drive as an hde, not an hda. So in essence, it's labeling my partitions as the following...

hde1 = FAT32
hde2 = FAT 32
hde6 = Linux Native Partition
hde7 = Linux Swap Partition

When it does this, it writes it in fstab, which is on the /etc directory of hda6, as hde6 and hde7, when it should be hda6 and hda7. The reason that I know it is hda6 is that I can boot Linux from hda6 at the boot prompt, and the fact I don't have five hard drives.

And when I boot Linux, it goes to the same problem above when loading X:

Current State: Booting:

fsck.ext2: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hda6

Failed to check file system: Do you want to repair the errors?

Yes or No

If I click either yes or no, it exits me to the root prompt, where I can open fstab from the /etc directory in vi... Now the problem is, I can open it and edit it in vi, but I can't save it back to it's original place. Remember, Linux is still thinking my Linux native partition is hde6, while it's hda6... and it won't know it until I save the fstab file saying that it's hda6, which I can't do because Linux still thinks it's...

Paradoxes suck... -chuckles-

Same problem with the swap file, btw. Linux thinks it's a hde7 when it's hda7... still have to edit that in fstab before it will load correctly...

Any help with this one?

Flame:

Looks like whatever controller you are using is enumerating in a non-standard fashion. Try this...


depending on kernel and what you named your label (in lilo) for your config...

kernels < 2.4.x use the following, note that 'linux' is the default label for the default installs. If yours is different (in lilo.conf) use yours.and for kernels 2.4x and up it's

Found a place that may offer a solution http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/jrodm...board_ide.html

You running a UDMA 100 controller?? If so these are seen as additional IDE channel, hence are hde, hdf, hdg, hdh.

You need to boot from a boot disk that doesn't use your existing hard disk partitions for its file systems (like a demo CD, or maybe a recuse disk), mount your root partition to somewhere, then edit /etc/fstab then restart.

HTH

Jamie...

Thank you all for your help... but it didn't work. Well, it did partially, during boot startup I did see it swap from hde to hda. But the problem is fstab is still saying hde instead of hda... so I can't mount correctly. It comes up with an error saying it can't find it in fstab or mtab... which is written during the install... is there anyway to change it during the install? Or even afterward?

Oh, and thank you mcleodnine and Fried. After reading the link I did find that I had a PCI IDE card in the computer...

Flame

Well if you want to try and start te install again, try and pass the 'reverse' option when it boots. That way it should install on the right piece of real estate. Make sure you edit the lilo.conf file with the or pci=reverse depending on your kernel.