hey,
say the cdrom is on hdc, put this in your lilo.conf
append="hdc=noprobe hdc=cdrom"
save it... rerun lilo...
reboot...
Does it detect correctly now? I have seen this personally on 1 drive, it
just freezes for a few moments on the cdrom detection, and doesn't detect.
But appending the above line and rerunning lilo, and with a reboot, the
detection works fine, as it is forcing the kernel to say hey, we have a
cdrom, but just don't probe, use the universial driver.
:)
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, 7 September 2000 10:15
Subject: [SLUG] Intel 440BX2 + CDROM
>Is anyone running an ATAPI IDE CDROM in an Intel 440BX2 Motherboard running
>Linux ?
>
>Its funny how since I changed my motherboard over a few months ago, my
CDROM
>is no longer recognised when the kernel boots, yes it works in Windows.
>
>The strange thing is, I'm running Redhat 6.2, the CDROM is bootable, and it
>will install Linux with no problems with the CDROM, but when you reboot, it
>detects the harddisks I have, then stalls for about 5 seconds scanning the
>rest of the IDE bus for devices, then continues on without detecting the
>CDROM, very odd. Its definately motherboard related, I think I'm running
P22
>BIOS which was the latest last time I looked. I never had this problem with
>my previous motherboard.
>
>Its not a huge deal, my main fileserver has Its CDROM NFS'd out. just a
>thought.
>
>Regards,
>Stephen
>
>
>
>
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