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The 02.11.19 at 20:32, Roy Cabaniss wrote:
I recently decided to update to 8.1 from 7.3. This was a clean install from a dvd drive. The system has a dvd as hdc and a burner as hdd. I found the note about 8.1 and ide drives (whose bright idea was that anyway?) and did indeed make the modifications to the sysconfig/kernal file. and updated the initrd.
I undertand that for the burner you need ide-scsi.
grub has the following lines in it (any real reason to use grub rather than lilo?).
You don't need to run lilo after you change anything in the kernel or ramdisk. It's automatic.
title linux kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 hdd=ide-scsi vga=788 initrd (hd1,0)/initrd
I supose that is correct. What do you see in the /var/log/boot.msg file? It should detect the burner somewhere as a scsi. Something like this: <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 Alternatively, run: nimrodel:~ # scan_scsi.linux Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 CD-ROM -> /dev/sg0 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 CD-ROM -> /dev/sg1 Then, with the above, I know that the recorder is the second scsi device. Thus, I make the following symlinks: cer@nimrodel:~> l /dev/cdr* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2002-11-07 19:33 /dev/cdrecorder -> sr1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2002-11-07 19:37 /dev/cdrom -> scd1 In the fstab, I just refer to /dev/cdrom or recorder. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson