On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 02:58, Charlie wrote: > > > I just did (both ways hdc=ide-cd and hdc=ide-cdrom) and there's no > > > difference. Interesting thing though, now I get a red "failed" at the > > > devfs mounting local filesystems "no medium found" warning. Floppy drive > > > tries to run at boot now too. I have no access to any removable media now > > > at all. The floppy may have been part of it previously. Yep, I just > > > checked the copy of mtab I saved and what's at /etc/mtab now, the same > > > exactly. > > > > Do I infer from this that you have the same situation as me? i.e., CDROM > > drive going through ide-scsi that shouldn't be? > > Yes, I've been chasing it for three days now. It seems that when I disabled > supermount for the -ROM and the -RW I managed to get them to mount manually > (using hdc=ide-cdrom) but it still doesn't work seem to be working correctly.
FAO Pixel too! :) Pixel's suggestion seems to have worked for me. If I boot with the line: append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-cd hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off" Then hdc is correctly located as /dev/hdc once more (and supermount-able from that location). Rather odd. -- adamw
