Problem : The suggestion to put "floppy=thinkpad" into the lilo.conf did not work.
I notice there is a /proc/cmdline which seems to get built each boot time. Do you know what creates this ? Thinking of placing the "floppy=thinkpad" line where that would be anticipating it will be used at boot time. Thanks, frank naranjo bi! >Problem : > However, the CD-rom access is still not mounted. > and I do not know how access it. There does > not seem to be a scsi recognized. > >the dmesg output lists : ----------------------- >Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! >PPA: unable to initialize controller at 0x378, error 1 >scsi : 0 hosts. >scsi : detectotal total. >------------------------------------------- >I do not remember telling the drivers loaded >section of the install there was a WD-7000 SCSI card, >I only selected the "generic scsi drivers" . > >I do not know what "mem_base,irq" to use in the >boot command : >Future Domain TMC-8xx/950 tmc8xx=mem_base,irq > >How do you add another driver to debian ? >for example: >"Future Domain TMC-8xx/950 tmc8xx=mem_base,irq" > >Does something like this need to be placed into >the lilo.conf file ? > >under /proc/scsi/scsi it says:--------- >Attached devices: none >---------------------------------------- > >under /proc/devices it contains:-------- >Character devices: >1 mem >2 pty >3 ttyp >4 ttyS >5 cua >6 lp >7 vcs >10 misc >12 tpqic02 >36 netlink > >Block Devices: >1 ramdisk >2 fd >3 ide0 >7 loop >9 md >36 ed >---------------------------------------- > >Therefore I do not think the CDrom has been recognized. > >Previously under my NT 4.0 system I had on this >thinkpad the Diagnostics described my cd-rom >as : FutureDomain 8xxx scsi >and the cdrom device labeled as : IBM CDRM00201 >scsi CD ROM >scsi port 0 >bus # 0 > >At 01:13 PM 10/5/97 +1300, Carey Evans wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >>> Problem #1 - I cannot access the floppy on the ThinkPad >> >>> root: linux floppy=thinkpad >> >>> Were is this referenced in the debian install ? >> >>For some reason, the Thinkpad inverts the meaning of some floppy >>control lines. You always have to put "floppy=thinkpad" when you >>boot. The page you get when you press F4 on the install disk lists >>this. >> >>After installing, you can add a line `append="floppy=thinkpad"' to >>your /etc/lilo.conf and rerun LILO, to have this happen automatically. >> >>> Problem # 2 cannot mount the CD-rom >>> >>> when dselect asks for the block device name >>> what should I give it ? >> >>Probably /dev/scd0, for the first SCSI CD-ROM. But first the kernel >>has to recognise the SCSI interface. The page you get with F5 on the >>install disk says: "Future Domain TMC-8xx/950 tmc8xx=mem_base,irq" - >>is this what you've got? >> >>Check the boot messages by typing "dmesg | more", and look at the >>files in /proc, to see what hardware got detected. Unfortunately I >>don't have any SCSI hardware ATM. >> >>> I do not think the CD-rom is mounted. >>> How can I "ls -la" the cdrom ? >> >>% mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/scd0 /cdrom >>% ls -la /cdrom >> >>-- >> Carey Evans <*> http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .