Ok well i had my hard drive pluged into the normal ide plug from the motherboard BUT it was making a weird noise i couldnt figure out what the HELL it was so i switched the plug with the cdrom. So that made the root hard drive /dev/hdc1 and the cdrom /dev/hda but my home drive i cant mount cuz im not sure what it is its a separte hard drive??? Anyone know?? Plz Help

Matt3333

Do you have only one IDE cable, one connector on the HD and one on the CD?
Or, do you have 2 IDE cables, IDE1 going to HD and IDE2 going to CD?

Then, did you just rearrange the connectors from the one cable, or did you move the two cables to different IDE headers on the motherboard?

It's not clear from your post?

How about - just switch it back and investigate the 'weird noise".

Edit: Oh, from your title I'd say you have 2 cables. I don't think you can just switch them because of the way the IDE device designations are assigned based on the IDE headers.

Switching really cables isn't going to help your noise problem unless the cables were rubbing against a fan or something.

You will need to modify the /etc/fstab file to update the new drive locations.

Ok sorry about no being soo clear i thought it was but ok. I have 2 ide plugs on each ide cable. all i did was switch the header for the hard drives to the cdrom and the cdrom header to the hard drives.

And Actually that did solve the problem. But then it was working like the fstab wasnt seeing the second hard drive. But anywaysi got it all sorted out althought i still dont know what that noise was i think it was that something with that it couldnt find the hard drive header or soemthing.... when i booted up my computer it would be like searching for ide master 1..... and then it said there wasnt one so it didnt boot.