Today I spent several hours installing 9.0 for AMD 64 through FTP using the Suse 9.0 patch-boot cd. Not an easy task compared to previous Suse FTP installations I did. Anyway now for the question I have. My fresh installed systeem hangs at boot. Kernel panic because the root partition SDA5 cannot be mounted. I have a serial ata drive with ext3 hooked on a Via controller on a MSI KT8 NEO board. I think the problem relates to to the possible absence of the sata_via module/driver during boot. Can somebody confirm that initrd needs to contain the sata_via module? How does a 'working' INITRD_MODULES variable in /etc/sysconfig/kernel look? Using the Suse 9.0 patch-boot cd I managed to boot the system. I tried to make a new initrd with the mkinitrd script. The response was that the dependencies of sata_via couldn't be determined, "maybe modules.dep is out of date". Running depmod -a didn't help me: "/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/modules.dep could'nt be opened for writing". I don't know why. Filesystem is mounted rw. Please help. I am stuck. Regards, Jeroen Amsterdam