basically, I wanted to add anoother kernel to test and went into 'configure your computer' 'boot' and it aborts with an error.
When I checked /var/log/messages, I see this (below_ showing a sdb drive not found which is weird as this is a notebook with one drive. I check fstab and remmed it and rebooted, but it still complains about this phantom drive. Ideas ?
Jul 13 15:25:02 localhost drakboot[3839]: ### Program is starting ###
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: HDIO_GETGEO on /dev/sda succeeded: heads=255 sectors=63 cylinders=24321 start=0
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: id2hd: 0xd13572af=>sda
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: id2edd: 0xd13572af=>/sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: geometry_from_edd sda 0xd13572af: 24321/255/63
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: test_for_bad_drives(/dev/sda on sector #62)
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: found a dos partition table on /dev/sda at sector 0
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: guess_geometry_from_partition_table sda: 24321/255/63
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: is_geometry_valid_for_the_partition_table failed for (sda1, 20973567): 1023,254,62 vs 1023,138,48 with geometry 24321/255/63
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda1
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: blkid gave: ntfs-3g CCBE97B7BE979912 PQSERVICE
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda2
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: blkid gave: ntfs-3g 68F44506F444D7C8 OS
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda3
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: blkid gave: ntfs-3g 040C47C40C47B00A DATA
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda5
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: blkid gave: ext3 61d58a94-5447-46c0-a2f6-58624b323670
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda6
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: blkid gave: swap 110bea0a-54f1-4db6-9ec0-9d4d400652ab
Jul 13 15:25:03 localhost drakboot[3839]: running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda7
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: blkid gave: ext3 60f129c8-86c4-4357-b732-c9a010323687
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: fs::get::device2part: unknown device <</dev/sdb5>>
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: ERROR: unknown device /dev/sdb5 (computed from (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu)
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: fs::get::device2part: unknown device <</dev/sdb5>>
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: ERROR: unknown device /dev/sdb5 (computed from (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img)
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: fs::get::device2part: unknown device <</dev/sdb5>>
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: ERROR: unknown device /dev/sdb5 (computed from (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz)
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: fs::get::device2part: unknown device <</dev/sdb5>>
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: ERROR: unknown device /dev/sdb5 (computed from (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img)
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: fs::get::device2part: unknown device <</dev/sdb5>>
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: ERROR: unknown device /dev/sdb5 (computed from (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz)
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: fs::get::device2part: unknown device <</dev/sdb5>>
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: ERROR: unknown device /dev/sdb5 (computed from (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img)
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: fs::get::device2part: unknown device <</dev/sdb5>>
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: ERROR: unknown device /dev/sdb5 (computed from (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz)
Jul 13 15:25:04 localhost drakboot[3839]: ### Program is exiting ###
