On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 4:54 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: > > Below are the contents of my /ect/lilo.conf and fstab files. Do > they give a clue as to what the problem is? > > 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 hdb=ide-scsi" > 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 > This looks absolutely normal to me.
> fstab currently reads: > > /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > /mnt/hdb /mnt/hdb supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,--,user 0 0 This is mounting your cd-rw without scsi-em > /mnt/scd0 /mnt/scd0 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,suid 0 0 Your genuine scsi drive > /dev/scd1 /mnt/scd1 auto user 0 0 And here is your cd-rw again! > /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 > 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat > iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc > defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 > It seems to me that this is what's causing the confusion. I would get rid of the line that refers to hdb. The /mnt/scd1 line should work then, though you may want to make it more like the scd0 line. HTH Anne
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