Hi Greg.
Two questions.....WHY? WHY?
You are munging up the scsi-emulation modules that let you see the cdrom drives as scsi devices.
You must have a reason that defys logic.
Just upgrade to the latest and use apt-get for the rest or make sure you upgrade the kernel and all the NEEDED modules before you repeat your personal torture.
WHY?
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: "Greg Wallace"
Subj: [SLE] CD Problem
Date: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:51 pm
Size: 4K
To:
I am in the process of upgrading my old 8.1 system to the latest version. I
want to go through each version in order to minimize my chances of problems
along the way (I have all of the boxed sets). So, I started with step 1
today -- upgrade 8.1 to 8.2. Well, that fouled up right off of the bat and
completely hosed my system. I chose the installation option of doing a
backup before proceding and it went off into never never land. Eventually,
I powered down the machine and re-booting but it was pretty much trashed. I
figured the effort to try to get that cleaned up would be more trouble than
it was worth. So, I used a 3rd party system recovery tool to get my original
8.1 back and then made a second pass at the upgrade (and this time I skipped
that backup step). Well, it worked, but only partially. I do have 8.2 up
and running, but I was unable to complete the installation of all of the new
software components, which I assume includes some new YaST components that
Ill need. I got through the first CD but thats it. After that, you have
to re-boot and finish the installation from your booted system using the
remaining CDs (2-5). Unfortunately, for some reason I can no longer access
my CD device once I reboot. The Installation CD system read CD1 just fine,
but once Im booted up in my new 8.2, it is inaccessible. So, I was unable
to get any of the updates on cds 2-5. I tried going back and reinstalling
to pick those up but the same thing keeps happening. It re-boots, asked for
CD2, then says it cant read it. I kept getting some error about unable to
read the CD device.
When I enter cdrecord scanbus, heres what it says
linux:~ # cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.11a28 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open
SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
root.
linux:~ #
So, right now I cannot read a CD. The message above mentions SCSI, though I
do not have a SCSI device. I have occasionally seen messages relating to
SCSI in the past, but I just ignored them. I think I may have somehow
initially picked that option when I first got SuSE (the 8.1 version I am
coming from).
Heres my fstab. I have a Samsung CD RW DVD R device
# Updated by Storix System Installation
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec
0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec
0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/sda5 ext2 noauto 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0\
The comment at the top was evidently placed in there when I used Storix to
recover the system after that first failed installation attempt.
I did go back through this entire process a second time -- recovering
with Storix and re-installing 8.2 again. Same thing. One thing I noticed,
though, is that after the Storix restore and before upgrading to 8.2, the
cdrecord scanbus seemed to show good output. 0,0,0 showed Samsung as the
device. So it looks like the upgrade to 8.2 is where this is getting hosed.
But it could also be that the Storix restore introduced some glitch that
doesnt show up until I do the upgrade. I cant go back to the way it was
before that Storix restore unless I do a YaST restore. Thats a very long,
drawn out process and Im hoping I can just somehow get this CD glitch fixed
and move on without having to go through that. The rest of my system seems
to be working just fine. Any help greatly appreciated.
Yours truly,
Greg Wallace
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