Hi I installed MDK7.2 on the following sys: SCSI boot disk on a Tekram U160 controller SCSI CD-ROM on same controller IDE Harddisk (used as cheap storage) Athlon on Asus A7V Motherboard The install process worked brilliantly, it detected the symbios 1010 SCSI controller and the devices attatched to it, disk drake let me set up the partitions (I formated /home as reiser). 7.1 failed to detect the scsi controller, so this was a big improvement The problem came when the system rebooted, and I got a 'li' with no 'lo'. I have had this before and so know what causes it. For some reason, Linux always assumes that an IDE disk is the first disk, and the scsi one the second (even if I use the 'boot offboard chipsets first' option in the kernel, and compile support for my scsi contoller into the kernel). When running /sbin/lilo with this config, it goes wrong saying that -dev/sda is not the first drive in the system. The only way that I know around it is to unplug the IDE drive, boot linux from a boot floppy, run /sbin/lilo, and then restart with the IDE drive plugged back in. This is a pain cause I tend to play around with Kernels, and for every kernel install, I need to remove the IDE drive so that lilo doesn't bugger up!! Is there any way to solve this?? maybe for 7.3/8.0 ?? ----------> Also, I am not sure that the modlines for my Monitor are correct - it is a Ilyama VM Pro 410, which I selected from the list, but I am unable to resize the image to fill the whole screen horizontally it sits about 0.5 ins off each screen edge with the monitor controls at their max. This is at 1024x768, 32bit with 100Hz refresh. ---------> Also, how do I tell what version of XFree is running, I did the Advanced install (the middle one) with a workstation class, but was not asked which version of xfree I wanted to use - just wondered which version I had. Regards Nigel
