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My installation procedure is as follows: 1. Install Sarge with a single IDE drive attached to the machine; 2. after a successful installation, attached a SATA drive the machine, did cfdisk/mke2fs, added into /etc/fstab to make /dev/sda1 mount at startup. 3. restarted machine again, here is the error message (roughly): Device /dev/sda1 doesn't exist or invalid fsck failed. Please repair manually. CONTROL-D will exit from this shell and continue system startup Yet if I remove the line in /etc/fstab, and the startup will be okay and I can manually do "fdisk -l /dev/sda" and mount /dev/sda1 without any problem. So my suspicion is that the related ata kernel modules are not loaded when fsck tries to look into the drive. I'm also suspecting this problem wont happen if the sata drive were present at the time of installing sarge. So now how can fix this problem at the post-install stage? I'll probably looking the modprobe family of tools... -jd
