Hi

symlink /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom


On Monday 16 December 2002 07:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm migrating my Mandrake 8.2 system to a new laptop (Toshiba 2400).
> This machine has a DVD/CDROM drive, but when I boot I get the following
> message:
>
> Assigning raw devices: cannot locate block device '/dev/dvd' (No such
> file or directory)
>
> Once the machine has booted, the CD works fine, but not the DVD (no
> surprise). I also have a second floppy listed in fstab:
>
> /mnt/floppy2 /mnt/floppy2 supermount
> dev=/dev/fd1,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0
>
>
> which reappears if I try to remove the entry (I think).
>
> Searching for this DVD error message I found one post (not Mandrake,
> SuSe perhaps?) that suggested appending nobiospnp to the command line. I
> have tried this but it did not help.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dave


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