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? 
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