Cameron, On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:00:20PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > I just attempted an installation on an alpha with a daily 'business > card' image from yesterday. After giving kernel boot parameters as > vorlon described, the initial boot was a success. The SCSI controller > and attached drives were detected. Unfortunately, some devfs weirdness > seemed to prevent the installer from seeing the CDROM drive: it showed > up in /dev/scsi/... but not in /dev/cdroms. Mounting the CD by hand > worked, but d-i still refused to recognise it. Since the driver for the > machine's network cards was on the CD, the installation got no further. > I was using a serial console, which mostly worked, although it seemed a bit > peculiar for it to ask for a keyboard layout, and the screen redraw was > significantly slower than it needed to be. > Some relevant output from capturing the serial console: > ~ # ls -l /dev/cdroms/ > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Jan 1 1970 cdrom0 -> ���scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd > ~ # ls -l /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0 > brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 11, 0 Jan 1 1970 cd > ~ # mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /cdrom > mount: Mounting /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /cdrom failed: No such file or directory > ~ # mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd /cdrom > mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd is write-protected, mounting read-only > It looks to me like the first three characters in the link in > /dev/cdroms should have been '../'. In case they get mangled by email, Well, as it turns out, these symlinks are generated by the kernel itself as part of devfs. Can you please verify that this is a reproducible error? I only have IDE cdroms to test with, but it works fine here -- and I think it would be quite a serious problem if the kernel was generating broken devfs symlinks on a regular basis (instead of, say, due to a cosmic ray hitting your machine ;). Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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