dmesg |grep hd Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda1 ro ) Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro testing NMI watchdog ... OK. ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: SAMSUNG SP1203N, ATA DISK drive hdb: SAMSUNG SP1203N, ATA DISK drive hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8526B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hda: max request size: 512KiB hda: 234493056 sectors (120060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hdb: max request size: 512KiB hdb: 234493056 sectors (120060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hdb: cache flushes supported hdb: hdb1 hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Adding 979956k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:979956k EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal orion:/var/run/courier# uname -r 2.6.18-4-amd64