On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > When I boot from a grml-0.9 cd my dvdrw and cdrw drives are found on hde > > and hdf. They are mountable and usable. > > > > The grml release info says it is based on Debian and uses a vanilla > > 2.6.18-3 kernel with patches and additional modules. > > > > I complied a kernel from Debian linux-source-2.6.18. On boot up the > > system fails to find the dvdrw and cdrw drives and does not add hde and > > hdf to the list of devices in /dev. Only entries hda and hdb for the > > two hard drives appear in /dev. > > > > grml can, why can't my Debian kernel do it? > > > > Tom George > > > > It can, and does. The reasons why it doesn't in your case can include > your custom kernel not being properly configured to support ide-cdrom > devices (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m|y) among many others.
Just checked this and found CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y > > Are you running this kernel on a regular debian system (etch), or are > you trying to use this as a replacement kernel on the grml live-cd or > something like that? The system is regular debian etch. I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade earlier today. > > Tom > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]