>>I have a system with three hard drives containing many partitions and multiple >installed OS's... including (now) SUSE 10.1, 10.0 and 9.3.
Sounds almost identical to my own situation. Now that you mention it, Suse does prefer to call my primary boot drive, by another "name", i.e. hde, instead of hda. Suse 10 did the same thing, however it installed and ran properly. During the installations of both 10.0 and 10.1, the installer proposed
incorrect boot loader configurations. I had to manually edit each Grub menu entry after confirming and revising the proposed partitioning schemes, as well.
Yes, I've also done the same thing for my other Linux installations (had to change HDA to HDE in order for them to boot properly, this because Suse sees that drive differently and of course, it's Suse Grub that's doing the booting. Hmmm, that makes me wonder if I went to a different version of Grub, namely Ubuntu, and input the correct parameters for the 10.1 install, if things would go swimmingly. Yep, gonna try that, and, I'll post my results. Thanks for the comeback, and for sprinkling the right fertilizer on my brain. Ciao Jim
