Hello, I realise that this topic has been covered quite a lot, but hopefully someone will be able to offer me some more advice. I've just bought a nice fast PC to be the main development machine for my startup software company. Most of my work involves open source, so Linux seemed the best option for me, I already run Suse 9 pro on my laptop so thought that would be the best option, especially as it supports AMD64. So obviously I was hugely disappointed to find installing it was a complete non-starter. I've tried to follow the instructions posted here, but so far no luck, and to be honest I have a business to run, and I can't afford to spend much more time on this. I know I should have checked to see if Linux would support my hardware, but I just assumed it would (it installed on my laptop so easily!). Windows XP pro is arriving today, this is the first time I've bought a Microsoft product. My PC is as follows: Mobo: GA-K8VNXP with onboard Via 8237 controller Hard drive: 2 x Seagate Serial ATA 120GB CPU: AMD64 3200XP Raid 0 has been configured in Bios and the array marked as the bootable drive. The GigaRaid option has been turned off (as I think this only applies for pata drives, I may be wrong in this), and I have configured RAID using the BIOS menus for the Via 8237 controller. I have downloaded the SATA patch CD, and have tried installing in safe mode with the settings such as poll=idle apm=off acpi=off, I have disabled the USB keyboard and mouse in bios, Booting with the patch CD gives me this message: crc error<6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:06 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06 If anyone has some advice on how to get Suse installed on this machine I'd be greatful, but if it involves days (or weeks) of wrestling with kernel updates and the like, I simply can't afford to do that, I have clients waiting for their software. Otherwise can anyone give a prediction how long it will be before Suse supports SATA properly? Thankyou in advance, Andrew Mason