<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> However, the running kernel of feisty now recognized the primary master drive as /dev/sda and the tertiary master as /dev/sdb. </blockquote><div> Feisty uses SATA drivers even for IDE drives and so you will have every partition renamed from hd(x)(x) to sd(x)(x). But fstab works if you are using UUID for partitions. I am using Feisty for quite a long time, upgraded from Edgy. The fstab file is fine for me. I never use (hd1,x) whereas i use (hd0,0) still. Here is the fstab file which feisty updated for me when upgrade was over. </div></div> title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic root (hd0,7) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=b4456ccd-3ae9-44fd-9499-0a33fbae8683 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic quiet savedefault Hope this helps a bit to get why it is /dev/sda and /dev/sdb (if you are not using SATA and got confused) -- Regards, C.C.Chakkaradeep, <a href="http://chakkaradeep.wordpress.com">http://chakkaradeep.wordpress.com</a> -- "Sometimes it's better not to ask - or to listen - when people tell you something can't be done. I didnt ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it." - from "Direct from Dell"