The 02.10.18 at 10:39, Robert Sweet wrote:
Any help with this nagging problem would greatly be appreciated. I would love to just use the DVD instead of changing cd's....
How is it reported on /var/log/boot.msg?
From boot.msg:
<4>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda6 hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-cd apm=on acpi=off vga=838 <4>ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi <4>ide_setup: hdc=ide-cd
No, those are the parameters passed to the kernel by lilo or grub; it means that it will try ide-cd for hdc and ide-scsi for hdb. I mean later, when it actually tries to load them. I'll use my system as an example. I have (with suse 7.3) both a cdrecorder and a dvd, and I access both as scsi - I don't load any ide-cd module, because the cd writting tools will not see IDE drives, only scsi, and it doesn't matter for the rest. These are the lines I was interested in, when I asked you; first, the detection: <4>hda: ST360020A, ATA DISK drive <4>hdb: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>hdd: CR-48X8TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Later, after it uncompress the ramdisk (both ide-scsi and ide-cd modules are read from the ramdisk), as I requested ide-scsi for both the recorder and the dvd, I see: <6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <4> Vendor: IDE Model: DVD-ROM 16X Rev: 1.06 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4> Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CR-48X8TE Rev: 1.1E <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 <4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 44x/44x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <4>sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray You would see something different. I would set both drives for ide-scsi, then see in the log which sr device gets the connection for which (sr0, sr1...). After that, just set the symlinks as appropiate in /dev. For yast, change de installation source to /dev/sr0 or 1. I understand there is a problem in 8.1 whereby they might be reported 8 times (each for each lun), but it has been reported in the list how to solve that if it happens. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson