I don't think I explained that well enough. It was late (or early) The reason for the scsi module needing to be installed is that it is a scsi cdrom, the system boots off the cd no problems but once it loads the initial install program where you would select modules you want loaded the kernel has no scsi support at this point and it can't continue -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Kunz [mailto:kunza@tdbank.ca] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 5:25 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] install problems on older proliant I have an older proliant 1500 all scsi system and I need to get the symbios scsi module loaded at boot time to do the install off the cd. Can anyone supply me with some information on how to do this. I have been trying to use the cd image to work around a problem with booting from the disks. The problem I have with the disks is that after the the first module disk is loaded I get a panic with can't mount "" please specify a valid ... I've tried specifying /dev/ram assuming the root filesystem is loaded into ramdisk with no luck i'm currently using the parameters "manual mem=96M" I need the memory parameter for the older esia bus machines Any help or suggestions appreciated Andrew