K.Ghosh wrote:
>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 ?
Seems strange to me. Don't have any fat partitions on my system.
Can't comment
>I also would like to try linux hdb=cdrom at boot time. Any suggestions?
Don't know about that. Go ahead. There's probably a similar option in
BIOS too IIRC. If this works, please let us know. It will make my job
easier if I run into similar problem in Mandrake 8.2 :-)
By the way, there's also another option you can try if your dmesg
output contains something like this "CDROM...0x03f0 in use". In this case
you can try the boot line option (see BootPrompt HOWTO for details)
reserve=0x300,32 blah=0x300
(keeps all device drivers except the driver for `blah' from probing 0x300-0x31f.)
Also, since you are willing to reinstall, you can first install Red Hat 7.1 and
upgrade it to 7.2 That way, most probably, your old kernels will also appear as
options in LILO prompt. You can use them to work with the CDROM. I tried this
when I upgraded to Mandrake 8.1 on our college computer and it worked.
HTH
Regards,
Santanu Chatterjee
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