Hey, guys. I have a weird deal going on with my dual-boot machine. After working in my Win98 partition, when I boot back into Linux, Redhat hoses my /etc/fstab, and it looks like it's trying to mount my 2 cdrom drives as ide and scsi. It adds two lines to my fstab for cdrom2 and cdrom3, and installs 2 symlinks: cdrom2->hdc cdrom3->hdd. I have Win98 in one partition and Redhat 8.0 in another. Same physical harddrive. I have 2 cdrom drives: 1. (cdrom) DVD/CD-ROM 2. (cdrom1) CD-RW They are ide (of course) and installed as ide when RH did it's thing. I later changed 'em to scsi emulation in order to run the burner. X-CD-Roasted asked that my reader (cdrom) also be under scsi emulation, so what did I care. I modified modules.conf, grub.conf, and my symlinks (rm the hdc and hdd; ln -s to scd0 and scd1). Everything works like a charm until I boot into Win98 and do some work. Booting back into Linux, I get a "FAILED" messages after modules dependencies are resolved (?), during the mounting of my fstab (it's adding the 2 extra lines and establish the 2 unnecessary symlinks), and right before kudzu goes to work. To fix it, I gotta vi fstab, delete the 2 extra lines, remove the two sylinks to hdc and hdd, and then reestablish the links to scd0 and 1. I noticed this first when I was using PowerPoint and accessing the floppy (for weekly presentations). Yesterday it did it when I did some work in Dreamweaver MX and Fireworks MX. (All in Win98SE.) Anyone have any idea why this is going on, and maybe how I can fix it? It's not damaging anything, but it's a pain to have fix what Redhat "fixed" on boot up 2 or 3 times each week. Thanks! -Greg -- Desktop Idiot Running Red Hat 8.0 Linux. http://www.greg-and-sue.com/screenshot.jpg