At 12:22 PM 8/18/02 -0400, Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote: >hi, >recently, installed the kernel sources (v2.4.18) and compiled them to >create my own kernel. >Everything seems to be fine except that i can no longer mount my cdrom. >The mount command returns an error "hdc driver not found.". i had enabled >'Loadable kernel module support' during configuration. >I thought this mite have soemthing to do with the problem, so i tried with >that option disabled, but the error didn't change. >what am i doing wrong?
Your description is a bit too sketchy for me to be sure ... but I would *guess* from what you wrote that you did not compile ide-cd either into the kernel or as a module. Or possibly you are missing support for the iso9660 filesystem. To fix the first, in kernel configuration, go to "IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices" and select "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support". To fix the second, go to "File Systems" and select "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support". (The directions above are for the "make menuconfig" method; if you use one of the others, adapt as needed.) If you did compile these choices as modules, then for some reason your system is not loading them. Module loading methods vary a bit from distro to distro, so I can't help you here, since you don't say what distro you are using. If you think they are present but not loading, test this (as root) by modprobe'ing the relevant module names. (I don't know what they are, since I compile these options directly into my kernels, but if you look around in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers, you should find them without too much trouble.) There are some hidden assumptions in my suggestions, such as that hdc is the right /dev device for your CD and that it is standard ATAPI. The need to make such assumptions follows from the sketchy nature of your description. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
