L. Mark Stone wrote:
Jim,
Try this:
Do a regular graphic install (I'm presuming that at least before the first reboot the installer finds all of your SCSI devices and loads the right modules.) up to the point where you get the screen that asks you to confirm things like time zone, package selection, grub location/configuration etc.
Do a CTRL-ALT-F9 to get to a root console and look at /etc/sysconfig/kernel.
See if the line beginning "INITRD_MODULES=" contains the SCSI driver module as well as any file system modules you may need to boot the system. If not, edit the file with pico to add the modules. As an example, the line from my file reads: INITRD_MODULES="dpt_i2o reiserfs".
One of the last scripts in the first part of the install runs "mkinitrd", which uses the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file to build the initial ramdisk. If the appropriate SCSI driver doesn't get added to /etc/sysconfig/kernel, then the initial ram disk can't see your hard drives, and the reboot during the install will fail.
Hope this helps.
Mark
That mostly worked, and it gave me enough info to figure it out. I have it booting and connected to my network!!!! I had to do a manual install, then boot an installed system from there. The missing thing was that I had to manually do a mkinitrd to create the boot image with the drivers I listed. I'm not sure why YaST didn't do it, but it works and I'm happy now. I went off track a bit following instructions on the net that weren't quite right, but it didn't take too long to get it straight. I really appreciate your advice. Thank you! Jim