I'll start from the beginning:Despite your very graphical description of your problem it is not easy to follow what you did wrong here.
I booted from Lilo. The progress meter quickly filled...then...went off the screen...and back on the other side. That was weird... So I rebooted, pressed esc, and booted in text mode. Since I shut down improperly, and hda5 wasn't unmounted right, it had to check whatever it checks. So it takes an unusually long time. Then it goes to boot. I see many many things I've never seen before, and it asks me if I want to run a config tool, because sdc0(my cd-rom drive/burner) was removed and hdc was added. I don't know what that was about. Then something didn't load...something with 'char' in it. Then something was 'passed'. It was 'fs', and said something about not recognizing NTFS. Then, my wlan0 device didn't load, and neither did my sound.
So then I proceeded to login. Apparently /home was read-only. So I logged into root, and looked in /home. And /home/marc is gone. My sound doesn't work, as was expected, and neither did my wlan connection. So i rebooted, and booted the old kernel. Everything worked fine, and my /home/marc was there.
This could have been a nerdy horror movie. =/
Okay so here's what I figure: My snd-ali5451 module isn't loading properly, and neither is my prism2_cs. I don't know why, because I did a make oldconfig, and enabled mostly everything. I guess that has something to do with the cd-rom drive too. I have no clue what was up with the original graphic boot, nor do I know why my /home/marc directory was gone, then back.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
--Marc
Judging from the description only and without any real evidence to make any assumptions it feels to me as though in running your setup for My snd-ali5451 and prism2_cs has altered the boot script to the point of making the wrong choices for some things, including the writer you have installed. Presumably you are on root desktop or at a root terminal. If so I would begin by giving us some real clues like what does the boot stanza from /etc/lilo.conf look like for the OS you booted into, together with a look at the /etc/fstab entries to see what type of setup you have for many of your devices.
If you are at a root terminal just type, cat /etc/lilo.conf and cat /etc/fstab and report.
If on root desktop,
navigate through the home icon to these files and Left mouse click (LMC) to display.
These two file's bootscript largely govern what type of device configuration you are likely to get.
When the list gets a bit of real info about your setup they can then begin to give you some real help and until then it's hard to say what you are doing to make things go wrong.
John
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