I've been struggling with a pretty bad bug in the sata_nv driver included in the 2.6.5-* kernel. This bug appears to have gone away with the 2.6.16 kernel from SLES10. I'm trying to put together an updated SLES repository right now, and I'm not quite sure how to add the newer version of the kernel .. Basically, because with kernels after 2.6.9 /dev/hd* sata devices get addressed as /dev/sd, I need to make sure that the 2.6.5 kernel never actually gets installed. How would I go about replacing the kernel in the distribution with this newer kernel? I've already made new bootdisks with the new kernel & kernel modules that work fine, however I need to make sure the newer kernel rpm, as well as the updated perl-Bootloader rpm get installed.