I like the option of boot splash but like being able to see if there is a problem! Is it possible to have an option to enable/disable splash if it was integrated?

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Sorry for the late reply to this. The problem was bad hard ware.. My mother board now resides in the trash.. Seems the board expired after the 90 day's of warranty :). Have a new mb and getting back up and running :). So in short the hd's are seen correctly now and all is going well.

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Is this a problem only with Salix? To me it seems like a hardware problem, specifically your PSU is probably not powerful enough to provide power to all your hard drives at the same time.
Slackware had same error but drive worked as being mounted as /home/butterball/Storage in /etc/fstab. Also PSU ...

Problem, 1 of 2 sata drives do not show up/work. If I have this drive in alone I can install to and boot it. It is a sata 40gb hd. The other drive is a sata 160gb hd and last is a ide 320gb hd. I took the drive out but was wondering if it is a bad setting on my part.
Here is dmesg | grep ata.

ata1 ...

320g hd ide, 160g hd sata, 4g mem, gigabite all in one mb, amd dual core 2.8ghz cpu.

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Where to start...??? :) I started with Debian linux and moved around trying to find something that just fits.. Slackware was interesting to me due to the life span it has run, then Salix.. out of a fluke I just installed it on an old lapy and it acted like someone gave it a bit of speed or ...