On Thursday 31 January 2002 11:12, john flanders wrote:
Hi,
I¹ve installed SuSE 7.3 on my G4/450. I¹ve changed the original CD with an ³Apple² CD-RW ( Matshita CW 7586). When i installed SuSE i¹ve got an problem to find CD2. I¹ve used /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi like SuSE said and edited the boot.local in the same way.
This might not be sufficient since hdX=ide-scsi (X = a,b,c,d,... depending where you attached the CD-RW) must be passed on the kernel command line. So you have to add ide-scsi to INITRD_MODULES in rc.config and run mk_initrd again. Then change the kernel command line and reboot.
The installation was fine, but now no CD will be shown. On the KDE desktop, right ? With cdrecord scanbus the device was found as a SCSI-device (it is IDE). What is wrong an how can i get my cd running ??
The ide-scsi module re-maps the CD from /dev/hdX to /dev/srY, but /dev/cdrom still points to the (old) IDE device. You must remove /dev/cdrom and make a new symlink to the correct /dev/srY device, i.e "ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/sr1" Klaus