G'day all.
I'm moderately experienced in Linux, but I'm having a bizarre but
completely reproducible problem. I have installed openSUSE 10.1 and
Windows XP Pro on a Clevo M570U laptop – several times. And every time
that I do, the Philips DVD Burner becomes invisible to Windows. - not
appearing in the Explorer list, the system hardware list in device
manager, etc. It's as though it's been physically removed from the computer.
I have twice installed Windows then SUSE, and the DVD is OK until SUSE
is installed. I once reinstalled Windows afterwards, and the DVD was OK
until I booted into the SUSE install and re-installed GRUB.
The DVD works fine under SUSE.
The grub.conf file is as follows:
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root (hd0,1)
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 (hd0,1) /grub/stage2
0x8000 (hd0,1)/grub/menu.lst
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 (hd0) /grub/stage2
0x8000 (hd0,1)/grub/menu.lst
quit
The menu.lst file is as follows:
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# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Jun 16 17:07:00 EST 2007
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 1
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/message
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x317 apm=off acpi=off mce=off
barrier=off ide=nodma idewait=50 i8042.nomux psmouse.proto=bare irqpoll
pci=nommconf resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts
initrd /initrd
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off
acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /initrd
Does anyone have any clues?
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