This was to be a fresh install to replace 8.1 with 8.2 instead of trying to upgrade it. I don't remember having any such SCSI trouble with 8.1. I've installed 8.2 four times now on this system with no improvement in results. Emergency rescue from CD can mount the / filesystem /dev/sda7 just fine, but both the floppy boot disk and the HD boots stop with the subject error message.
Messages leading to the subject error message: [floppy] initrd.img . . . Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue. [HD - Grub] request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs is not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "sda7" or 08:07 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:07 /dev/sda is on LSI Logic SYM8751SP /dev/scd0 (boot CD) is on LSI Logic SYM8150 /boot/initrd.img is the same as initrd.img on the boot floppy, about 160K, making the freespace on the boot floppy about 400K. The installer seems to think a floppy with a SCSI module needs to be installed. That part I skipped over, since I never needed to answer yes to that before. I found http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3#scsi but can't tell if that is the fix I need, since for one thing it is for 8.1 and not 8.2. A search on the site failed to turn up anything else that looked relevant. Mandrakeuser.org search turned up nothing useful. Usenet turned up plenty questions, but no answers I could find other than a generic SCSI support problem. Obviously something SCSI support on this install is broken or missing. How do I fix it? -- "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions . . . upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." James Madison Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
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