> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:04:21 +0530 > From: Mithun Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > > > I did "dmesg | less" and found some lines which showed that the floppy drive > > was detected by the kernel, but the IO port address seemed to be in use. > > The main culprit seemed to be that the PnP BIOS option was turned on in > > the kernel shipped with Mandrake 8.1. So, recompiled the kernel without > > the PnP BIOS support and the problem was solved. > > Umm rather than turning off PnP support in the kernel why dont you turn > off PnP support in the BIOS. The BIOS doesnt really do a good job with > PnP devices. > > Mithun I will try out both your suggestions, after backing-up my RH7.1 and reinstalling RH7.2 again. By the way, BIOS settings had remained the same for both RH7.1 and RH7.2 installations, so 7.1 & 7.2 must be radically differing in the way they treat PnP BIOS. Anyway, the very first time I had faced this problem with 7.2, I had looked at /etc/fstab and the entry for cdrom was - /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0, which did not work, so after referring to man mount, I changed it to - /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,users,noauto,unhide,kudzu 0 0 and my cdrom WAS recognised on reboot. I also have some fat32 partitions in my system and to mount them, I added the appropriate entries in /etc/fstab. On reboot RH7.2 complained that fat32 support was still in alpha, and hung up. There was no way I could go past this, so I reinstalled RH7.2. After this, even changing the fstab entry as above, RH7.2 does not see my cdrom. Do the above symptoms help in the diagnosis ? I also would like to try linux hdb=cdrom at boot time. Any suggestions? Again, even though I had selected linuxconf and gnu-linuxconf at the time of installation of RH7.2, linuxconf did not work. Any relation with cdrom not being seen? -K.Ghosh. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
