On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > When I boot from a grml-0.9 cd my dvdrw and cdrw drives are found on hde > and hdf. They are mountable and usable. > > The grml release info says it is based on Debian and uses a vanilla > 2.6.18-3 kernel with patches and additional modules. > > I complied a kernel from Debian linux-source-2.6.18. On boot up the > system fails to find the dvdrw and cdrw drives and does not add hde and > hdf to the list of devices in /dev. Only entries hda and hdb for the > two hard drives appear in /dev. > > grml can, why can't my Debian kernel do it? > because its not a debian kernel. its your kernel. try it with a precompiled debian kernel and then compare your configs. A
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