> Were you not able to use the 1.2.1 miniroot?  It certainly had a kernel in it,
> although I would have preferred it to have been based on GENERIC_SCSI3 and
> not GENERIC when I did my first post-install reboot and it couldn't find
> anything in /etc/fstab  :-)

Oh, that's not good. A GENERIC_SCSI3 kernel was meant to be in the miniroot.
I'll fix this ASAP.

-pk