I created two floppies. One boot floppy with the contents of cdrom-aic7xxx.img, and one patch floppy with the contents of aic7xxx.img. I'm following the instructions from the web site: <http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3> "Error scenario: Problem with some SCSI cards using the aha2940 and aha2930 (and possibly other) chipsets. As a result, SCSI drives and CD-ROMs are not recognized, and you may receive a message like "I could not mount a device on /dev/scd0" or you will see pci error messages looping in the console output. When: During installation with some SCSI cards that use the aha2940 chipset. Please note that not all SCSI cards using this chipset are affected. Solution: Download this new CD-ROM boot floppy image file and this patch floppy image file. You will need two blank floppy diskettes and you must create a boot floppy and patch floppy of the two images (using dd if=image.img of=/dev/fd0). Boot from the newly created boot floppy and at the first prompt press F1. At the syslinux prompt type: patch. You will then be prompted to insert the patch floppy with contains the the proper aic7xxx module. This will then create a proper initrd during installation." So, I boot successfully and press F1. At the prompt, I type 'patch' and the installation continues without prompting for another floppy and I still can't get the CDROM to mount. :-( Obviously, I'm missing something here. Can anyone tell me what it is? Thank you very much for any help! Robert
