Re: grml can, why can't my Debian kernel do it?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > Tom George
> >
>
> It can, and does. The reasons why it doesn't in your case can include
> your custom kernel not being properly configured to support ide-cdrom
> devices (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m|y) among many others.
Just checked this and found CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
>
> Are you running this kernel on a regular debian system (etch), or are
> you trying to use this as a replacement kernel on the grml live-cd or
> something like that?
The system is regular debian etch. I ran apt-get update and apt-get
dist-upgrade earlier today.
>
> Tom
>
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