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Re: SparcStation 1 w/ Debian boot prob.



On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:43:12 +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere writes:
>You sure you have a CD in the drive?  It's been known to happen, speaking from
>experience...  or, /dev/cdrom should be a symlink to your scsi cd device.
>eg
>beowulf[1]~> ls -l /dev/cdrom
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Jul 20  2000 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0

at least on elder systems i've seen the alternative dev-entries /dev/sr<n>;
the canonical[0] source[1] says: 

"11 char        Raw keyboard device
                  0 = /dev/kbd          Raw keyboard device

                The raw keyboard device is used on Linux/SPARC only.

    block       SCSI CD-ROM devices
                  0 = /dev/sr0          First SCSI CD-ROM
                  1 = /dev/sr1          Second SCSI CD-ROM
                    ...

                The prefix /dev/scd instead of /dev/sr has been used
                as well, and might make more sense."

so go and look out for a block device with major 11 and minor 0, whatever
it's called :-)

az

[0]  short of the source itself of course
[1] /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt

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