Having built my first GNU/Debian kernels with SMP support (2.2.13-2 and 2.2.14-1 for i686) an experience drawn was that the kernel had to have the SCSI module aic7xxx.o compiled into the kernel for the kernel to boot. The boot disk is /dev/sda.
The machine I'm writing this on is running redhat/rawhide and also have SCSI support. However, on this machine the SCSI driver is loaded as a module: alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx. How come it works on this one? Also the redhat/mkbootdisk and debian/mkboot behaves differently. On a redhat created boot floppy the needed device files and lilo.conf are installed. Moreover on rawhide I use the mkinitrd command. Is this also available on Debian? Svante
