excessive old-world failure of YDL 3.0 install

[Stefan Jeglinski]

>On a PowerTower Pro, is it possible to install YDL 3.0 with an 
>upgrade card and UW SCSI?
>
>I have tried this maybe 75 times now (sadly, I'm not joking), using 
>every trick I know from a long history with Linux/PPC, and YDL going 
>back to 1.0. There appear to be about 6 independent failure modes 
>than I have encountered over and over. CDROM not found, X server 
>crashed, abnormal exit from the installer, pure freezes, and more.

OK, for reasons that I can speculate about, the addition of the 
Daystar Mach Speed Control Extension increased stability to the point 
that I was able to install the system again.

>Exactly once out of the 75 or so times has the install completed, 
>and that install could not find the root partition for some reason.

And now I find myself in this same boat. And, checking the archives, 
I see previous comments that the YDL 3.0 kernel (not the BOOT kernel) 
*DOES NOT* contain support for UW-SCSI, even though the install 
kernel does. I can hardly contain my frustration for such a ^&#%$@ 
oversight, if true.

So, is it true? And has anyone figured a workaround?



Stefan Jeglinski