Re: kernel 2.6 didn't recognize the CDROM, while 2.4 did
belahcene abdelkader <belahcene <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
> Hi, every body
>
> I downloaded the last CD debian testing Disk 1 (janv
> 30), the installation began correctly from the CD ( so
> it is detected ide cdrom well known type) after a
> while, it gave an error : no cdrom detected , !!!
> So I went to the other screen ( ctrl+F2), there is
> neither /dev/hd*, nor /dev/cdrom....,
>
> With kernel 2.4, the cdrom is detected, and
> installation was doing OK.
>
> The Hard disk is SATA, ( ACER PC Pentium 4) detected
> as sda by kernel 2.6 and hda by kernel 2.4.
>
If you have an ATAPI CDROM conected to a SATA bus you must enable atapi support
in libata. In the installer shell run:
# dmesg | grep '^ata.*WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored.$'
If so see:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351044
Hope this helps
Pelayo
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