Re: [newbie] Still No SCSI Emulation ??

[Langsley T Russell]

Hi again John.

You said:

What exactly does it do when you try to edit the file as root? It should work.

Here is a copy and paste from my terminal of exactly what I entered and the response it got.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] langsley]# /etc/lilo.conf
bash: /etc/lilo.conf: Permission denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED] langsley]#

You then said:

Try installing Midnight Commander (my favorite) by typing 'urpmi
mc' without the quotes. Then follow the instructions. Once it is
installed, type mc in the command line as root. Then navigate to /etc.
Scroll down until you find lilo.conf, and then press F4. It should open
the file for editing. Then change the append line under linux, and
linux-nonfb to say hdb=ide-scsi (plus whatever else was already there:

append="quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off"

Once again I did as you recommended and installed Midnight Commander. I spent about 6 hours or so discovering how to "navigate to /etc and opening the lilo.conf file. When I did, this what I found.

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
nowarn
timeout=150
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
                label=linux
                root=/dev/hda6
                initrd=/boot/initrd.img
                append="devfs=mount"
                read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
                label=failsafe
                root=/dev/hda6
                initrd=/boot/initrd.img
                append="failsafe devfs=nomount"
                read-only
other=/dev/hda1
                label=windows
                table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
                label=floppy
                unsafe

As I am sure you can see, there is no, "append line under linux," The only append lines I see are "under" image=/boot/vmlinuz and image=/boot/vmlinuz Unless I simply don't understand what "under" means.

I am unable to find anything in the lilo.conf file which says "linux-nonfb" Therefore I have no idea what I should edit , "to say hdb=ide-scsi (plus whatever else was already there":

You then asked:

Did you already edit fstab? If not, follow the directions in my other
email for doing that. When you are ready to save, press F2, then F10
twice to exit.

My attempts at editing the /etc/fstab file met with the same "permission denied" result. I have yet to try it using MC, but thought I should get this off while I work on that so that this dialog can progress and I can get my CDRW working.

Thanks again for all the effort you're putting into this.

LTR  }}:{(