excessive old-world failure of YDL 3.0 install

[bruce woller]

On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 09:48  PM, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
>
> 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?
>

YDL3.0 boots fine for me from a ADPT2940U2B (Ultra 2 wide aka LVD) host 
adapter and Maxtor U160 drives.  The only trick is to set up a pointer 
to your initrd file.  See posts from mid-July.  I don't know how this 
works with Old World boot processes.  On New World machines it is part 
of the yaboot.conf file written to the bootstrap partition with ybin.  
I assume a pointer to the file would be part of the bootx boot parms.

Regards,
Bruce