Although I can install manually, I can't use kickstart to rebuild a SCSI based system. It seems to fail when it should be mounting the CD. The same ks.cfg file works fine on an IDE system.
I was able to get kickstart to work properly with a toshiba scsi cdrom w/ Buslogic PCI scsi adaptor. I was able to perform an upgrade and install kickstart file stored on the boot floppy and type linux ks=floppy at the boot prompt.
With an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller and a SCSI CDROM kickstart does not seem to load the driver properly OR the kickstart process does not realize that the driver is loaded. linux ks=floppy gets to probing fine, identifies the 2940 then returns to the Load Module screen. ALT-F3 shows these lines at the end: * no scsi devices are available * in loadDeviceDriver, ks = 1, typName = SCSI * pci probing for SCSI devices * pci probe found 1 SCSI devices * found driver for Adaptec 2740, 2840, 2940 * running: /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/aic7xxx.o * in loadDeviceDriver, ks = 1, typName = SCSI * pci probing for SCSI devices * pci probe found 1 SCSI devices ALT-F4 shows the proper output for this module. All SCSI devices seem to be identified properly. Of course trying to load the module again fails because the module is already loaded.
This has been fixed in 6.0. Tested in lab on 2940U2W card with no problems.