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Sindi Keesan wrote

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
> > PCI card.
> > All my scsi cards and even onboard scsi
> > controllers have used this driver.
> > insmod aic7xxx (if that is your controller)
> > after booting with the 'big' kernel.
>
> The problem is:  the root filesystem resides
> on a SCSI HD.  The kernel must be able to mount
> the root filesystem before anything else can
> happen (i.e. insmod).  Therefore, the correct
> SCSI driver must be compiled into the kernel
> (not a module).  Otherwise, it will not be able
> to identify the HD that holds the root filesystem.
>
> That's why I suggested the Slackware scsi.s kernel,
> which has all possible scsi drivers compiled into
> the kernel.  The scsi.s kernel should be able to
> identify the SCSI drive, mount the root filesystem
> and then start BL3.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

You could also use DSL or another live CD to see which scsi controller 
module got loaded, then compile a kernel with that driver (probably 
aic7xxx).

If your big kernel does not have a controller driver, why answer Y instead 
of M to the other scsi driver questions?  It makes the kernel much larger 
and you still cannot use it to boot from scsi drive.