???? I´m positive this didn´t happen to me. Installed recently over a sata disk. In fact it names the device /dev/sda, but fstab is created correctly, with expert26 as a parameter for the installer.Did you try to install the 2.4 kernel? Although some claim otherwise, the 2.6 kernel installation is impossible (it was last time I tried, a couple of months ago, and things seem to not have changed). Fact is that 2.6 kernels detect SATA drives as SCSI, and therefore name them /dev/sdaX. Problem is the installer creates a /etc/fstab with /dev/hdaX entries for SATAs, hence the filesystem cannot be mounted after reboot