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


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