On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 22:02 +0000, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
> When I boot off the live CD there is a /dev/hda /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrw
> /dev/dvd /dev/dvdrw etc & it works just fine.
>
> When I boot off my kernel there are no such devices & I can't use the drive.
>
> This is the same drive as in my old system, which just worked with no
> tweaking before.
>
> Obviously I am missing some driver, yet I have grovelled thru
> menuconfig to no avail.
> Google turns up many similar problems, however none have been helpful.
>
> If I boot off the live cd, is there a way to see what options I need?
>
> The drive shows as "PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109" on the live cd.
>
if you have evdev support in your kernel, and dbus and hald in the boot
or default run level, your cd/dvd should automount in /media.
If you have gone with the current kernel trend it will be /dev/sr0 (sr_
something anyway) all hard drives will be sd_ and there will be no hd_.
Aliasing will probably allow you to umount /dev/sr0 and then
mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom. Easier to go with the flow and leave cd/dvd
out of fstab and up to auto.
