>Thank you Joseph, that did the trick! After studying the man page for >mkinitrd, I also used --preload ahci to make sure the ahci driver was >the first one to look for drives. Good to know, I think if you had the modprobe edited via a rescue disc and you chrooted in to the dead system the mkinitrd would not need any commands except an explicit declaration of the running kernel. That of course is just a WASG:) jlc