The Debian 2.0 rescue disk does, the 2.1 disk does not boot on a 1998 PC with on board aic7880 scsi adapter, one scsi hdd, and two cd drives. In v2.1 the controller and the hdd are detected but the boot process locks when it would come to detecting the cd-s. I compiled a few kernels with aic7xxx driver, from the range 2.0.38 to 2.2.13, the result is the same.
There was a similar sounding scsi detection problem discussed in December, subject "AHA-1520B/1522B SCSI controller". The advice was "add "append=x,x,x,x" to your /etc/lilo.conf file to force detection at boot". I could not find out from <kernel source>/drivers/scsi/* files what the numbers to be appended should be. I have been getting an error message about "illegal cable configuration, only two cables may be connected ...". But this is there also for the kernel 3.0.34, which does boot, and I have seen the same message on a PC with a Symbios scsi controller, again booting perfectly. My hdd is UWII, the cd-s (one is a cd writer) have older scsi sockets, therefore I use two cables. Comments would be greatly appreciated. Please reply also to personal e-address for I am not a subscriber to the mailing list. Geza Gyorgyi Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary [EMAIL PROTECTED]