Bruce Marshall wrote:

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Unfortunately, this issue comes back with the installation of the security patch for the Athlon kernel (k_athlon 2.4.20-86).

I can bring some more info about the issue and my config:

- My root partition is on an IDE drive. - Starting the module aic7xxx at boot time (init.rd or boot.local) will fail. - Starting the module manually once the whole OS is up and running works just fine.

Have you tried running mk_initrd to build a new initrd?

I ran mk_initrd to remove the module to restore my system. I also found in the log files that is was run by yast after the patch installation. Patrick