So yes, this really is true ancient/true scsi. And no, I don't yet have an adaptec aro-1130u2 zero-channel raidport-III controller, but I'm looking. Real western digital wde drives are hard to find these days.. I wonder why?
Ok, so where'd I find this build?
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... puppy-5.3/ for slacko-5.3-SCSI-PAE_HIGHMEM-ALT.iso
It runs great from the cd, but I can't do a full install. I guess it is stage-1 that bombs. first line is essentially:
kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
I installed on the first ext2 (with boot flag) partition (200mb) sda1 to jump to sda3 ext3 hd(0,2), but no luck. sda2 happens to be the swap, btw.
So I guess the unknown-block(0,0) refers to itself as the grub loaded vmlinuz doesn't know about scsi even with the pmedia=scsihd option?
here's the contents of menu.lst
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root (hd0,2)
kernel vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=normal
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=scsihd