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On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 07:13 +1200, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> I suggest you download
> the SCSI bzimage from Slackware 7.1.  You will find
> it in the /kernels/scsi.s directory.  
> 
> If we are lucky, the Slackware SCSI kernel will boot 
> your modified initfs.gz and start BL3.  If not, examine 
> the screen output carefully.  That SCSI kernel is 
> supposed to look for all sorts of different SCSI 
> drives.
I actually tried that, only it was a Slackware 10 kernel. I did some
Googleing and found a Slackware kernel specifically designed for old IBM
PCs that use the MCA bus (it was called ibmmca). When I loaded it in
place of the BL default kernel, it properly detected an SCSI bus, and
(possibly) the hard drives. It did all sorts of checks, and said it
found SCSI devices.

However, I got a bunch of errors when the kernel tried to load the hard
disk, it couldn't find Linux data on it, then gave me a FAT error (the
drive had FAT16, I believe), then looked for a reiserFS partition, then
loaded initfs.gz, which still could not mount the SCSI drive (I edited
the file in it to point to /dev/sda's instead of /dev/hda's). But that
was the closest I've gotten so far :)

Is it possible I need drives for the hard drive? I checked it, it's an
IBM WDS 3100 100mb hard drive, the SCSI pin things are set to an SCSI ID
of 6, and M.

I'll try using a 7.1 kernel, see what happens.