Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?

["Jaakko Niemi" <liiwi@lonesom.pp.fi>]

>> i have the same problem,my cdrom is no more accessible (though it's not a
>> indrance for now),i have a pioneer ATAPI CD drive,a regular ide card and
>> the drive is properly configured as slave (my Hard Drive is master),i did
>> not have the problem before when i was having Ontrack Disk Manager but
>> i have removed it knowing linux can work with big drive,but since then,the
>> CD drive stopped working,here's my lilo.conf:
>> 
>> boot=/dev/hda2
>> root=/dev/hda2
>> compact
>> install=/boot/boot.b
>> map=/boot/map
>> vga=normal
>> delay=20
>> image=/vmlinuz
>> label=Linux
>> read-only
>> 
>> do you know if adding the linear parameter would help ???

 I don't think it does have anything to do with CDROMs. 
 The CD in your case is /dev/hdb, and in my system 
 /dev/cdrom is symlink to the appropriate device.

 Can you mount it? (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom)

 Does the kernel find the CDROM in boot ?

	--j




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