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> > is the system still booting off the IDE disk (if present) ?
> 
> Yes.  But not from the SCSI

You can try setting the BIOS to boot from the SCSI disk which should
do the trick..unless you have a crappy BIOS that doesn't let you do
that.. :(
 
> With fdisk I set the partition as bootable on the SCSI disk and it seems to boot it now but it
> can't mount the root partition as I can't figure out what device name to use as my root device
> in the /etc/fstab.
> 
> I tried all the /dev/sd0* permutations I could find.

/dev/sd0a should point to your root partition on the SCSI disk

Regards,
- Cillian


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