home on a separate partition is not mounted

Just a thought:

is this:

a knoppix install

a debian install

or a

knx-hdinstall?

Fingers,

This an install of DamnSmallLinux, a scaled down version of Knoppix.

Glenn,
Where else might 'dmesg' be? It's not in /proc and 'locate' comes up empty.

Rob

:lol: sorry buddy, I'm a newb at linux, I'm using Knoppix 3.3.
I think it may be a debugging message, hence "dmesg" . The only thing I can think of (being a newb) is that you may have missed the pipe (|) characture or that your os is different. CHEERS. ps. spaces must be in the right places and linux is caps sensitive