hi, thanks for the quick response. i think, i had done what u recommended in ur "guess", but i would check it again. another thing i just noticed is that, modeprobe does report something missing while booting... dunno if it says the same thing u r .... i use RHL 7.3 . and yeah, hdc is the right /dev device for the cdrom ( or atleast i think it is, coz i was able to mount it under the original kernel). also in my original kernel, i get an error "/usr/bin/python has crashed (segmentation fault)", when i close my X-windows system(?) ... i use Gnome windows manager here... any idea y that wud be happenning?
thanks anshu ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, August 18, 2002 12:41 pm Subject: Re: problem mounting cdrom > 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 > - 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
