I am currently running SuSE 8.0 and am attempting to upgrade. I have been using Linux since 1.2.8 and SuSE since SuSE 6.4. I installed SuSE 8.0 clean using a SCSI CD ROM. My current CD ROM is an IDE which uses SCSI emulation at boot time. I found the knowledge article at: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/yast2_pakete_installieren.html which almost describes my problem, however the fix (rerun hwscan --cdrom) did not solve the problem. I start up Yast2, select "update system" and I get an error message: No access to source media used on previous installation. Continue with choosing new installation source? I select Continue Select location of source: I select CD installation And I get a popup: No installation data found on medium Could not mount the source medium I have rerun hwscan --cdrom several times. I did hwscan --list and deleted the files from /var/lib/hardware that were CDROM files and reran hwscan --cdrom. It didn't solve the problem. I have rebooted just in case... I boot using grub, and this is from my grub menu.lst: # For booting Linux title Linux root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.18 ro root=/dev/hda3 hdd=ide-scsi initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.18 I am able to mount the cd if I do: mount /cdrom.
From my fstab:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 and my /dev/ directory: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 10 13:34 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0 I tried ln -sf /dev/cdrom /dev/sr0 but that didn't help either.
From dmesg output:
hda: WDC WD1200BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD800BB-40BSA0, ATA DISK drive hdc: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-232B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ......... ......... Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 17942584 512-byte hdwr sectors (9187 MB) sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 > hdd: no flushcache support scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: CD-R/RW SW-232B Rev: R300 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Can anyone help me? Thanks