===========begin of scsi driver work around =============================== Workaround when booting from a scsi cd-rom or scsi dvd-rom drive : Here below is the method to load a scsi driver when using a adaptec 2940U scsi controller when booting from a scsi cd-rom drive. The number of machines which boot from a scsi cdrom or even scsi dvd-rom are relative small. It would be more like old 486 and P5 classic server-type machines. These machines are outdated. Any PII, PIII , P4 and AMD based ix86 based machine can boot from ATAPI cd-rom. The work around: The problem is getting the scsi driver on which the scsi-cdrom is attached loaded with insmod. All scsi drivers inside linux kernels 2.4.2x are far smaller as the 1440 kb which a 3.5" floppy can hold. On a pc (even windows) copy the needed scsi modules to a floppy disc like this (c: is the harddrive and e: the cdrom) : c:\> e: e:\> cd modules\2.4.24\kernel\drivers\scsi\aic7xxx e:\> copy aic7xxx.o a: e:\> cd .. e:\> copy sr_mod.o a: Then boot the crk, login as root and the mount the msdos based floppy (so don't run install-cdrom) : [tinker:root]:(~)# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy In case of a scsi cdrom, of course load e.g. the aic7xxx.o module first followed by sr_mod.o (generic scsi cd-rom driver) : [tinker:root]:(~)# insmod /floppy/aic7xxx.o [tinker:root]:(~)# insmod /floppy/sr_mod.o [tinker:root]:(~)# mount -r -t iso9960 /dev/scd0 /cdrom ===========end of scsi driver work around ==================================