Hi, It appears that this is not a complete solution ....
The current mechanism is sensitive to the state of the PATA and SATA controllers on the motherboard. If run in combined mode, where both PATA and SATA appear as hd[abcd]'s then initrd will fail. If run in solo mode, SATAs appear as hd[abcd] ... then initrd will succeed. For example I disable combined mode and the PATA DVDROM dissapears from BIOS and is un-useable, BUT initrd works and the system boots ... I have a feeling that is bug is a kernel bug ... but don't know for sure. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]