Re: [No common CD-ROM drive was detected]
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Daniele Gratteri wrote:
> Finn Thain ha scritto:
> >
> > ISTR
> > # modprobe sr_mod
> >
> Ok, I managed to copy the driver from floppy to the root filesystem in RAM and
> it is loaded when the installer looks for hardware. It gives the messages that
> can be seen in this little photo:
> http://www.webalice.it/gratteri/temp/cdrom.jpg
>
> (I wasn't able to save the debug info on floppy)
>
> The CD-ROM drives are recognized by the driver but it seems the system is not
> able to mount the disc, in whatever unit I put it.
>
It looks like the installer/cdrom-detect is looking for /dev/scd[01] when
it should probably be looking for /dev/sr[01]. Maybe that changed between
kernel versions -- I'm guessing. Anyway, I would try,
cd /dev
mknod scd0 b 11 0
mknod scd1 b 11 1
-f
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