On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Tracy Sweat wrote: -------8<----- > I posted this problem to this list yesterday and received a suggestion to > try: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom > > so I tried it. Same result. I also reinstalled twice, adding > "linux hd1a=cdrom" at the "boot:" prompt once and "linux hdc=cdrom" once. > Same story. > > I've tried installing Slackware 2.2 on my system and it does the same thing, > except that I get a "/dev/hd1a not block device" message among all the other > boot messages. That's why I think my CDROM would be recognized as /dev/hd1a. > I found out that although Slackware includes ATAPI CDROM support in the > boot/root images that are written to disk, they don't include that same > support in the kernel they write to your bootable floppy. You must recompile > the kernel in order to add that support. I checked the /dev of Debian, Red Hat and Slackware 3.0. All of them have hd devices following the scheme I posted earlier. No device hd1a anywhere in sight. All three distributions come with kernels that know about ATAPI, no need to recompile just to get your CD-ROM drive going.
However, you didn't tell exactly what make of drive you are using. Generally it's good to have the CD-ROM as the only drive on an ide channel, jumpered as master. That's the way I have it: two hd's on primary (hda/hdb), CD-ROM on secondary (hdc). But I know of one exception, a brand new Philps 6x, refusing to cooperate if it isn't slave to an hd. So if all else fails, you might try redistributing the drives over the ide's... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Steven Bolt # popular science monthly KIJK # ------------------------------------------------------------------------
