I have enabled AHCI in bios (instead of IDE mode before), now I can boot from sdE0!dos!9pcflop.gz, but only up to '[partdisk]: no disk devices were found on your system. The installation process cannot continue.' I still get 'biosdiskcall: int 13 op 041 drive 0x80 failed, ah error code 0x1', but then everything seems OK: ahci0: port 0xfebff800: hba sss1; ncs 31; coal 1; mports 3; led 1; clo 1; ems1; unk: sata-II with 4 ports sdiahci: drive 0 in state ready after 0 resets sdiahci: drive 1 in state missing after 0 resets ...etc... As mentioned, I can't process past [partdisk]. Can it be that 9load does not see the SATA disk? There is only a 20 MB FAT partition (primary) on it, the rest is free space. I'm lost, please, help. Best regards, thanks, ++pac.