Re: IBM Thinkpad 560, tried JVC drive, can't install BUT SEEN AT BOOTUP
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, John Miskinis wrote:
> Again, I could not use the CDROM for install. I configured just
> about all of the SCSI device drivers, and PCMCIA controller. Now
> when I boot, I see some info about the JVC drive though:
>
> It mentions the aha152x adapter BIOS test passes, detected 1 contoller
> It Identifies the JVC correctly as an XR-W2040. IRQ=3 SCSI ID=7
> Detected SCSI CD-ROM at scsi0 channel0 ID3 LUN0
>
> I can't mount /dev/cdrom (or even /dev/hda1) complains about no fstab
> entry. The peanut linux I had running would at least allow me
> to mount C: by "mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /DOS".
I doubt that /dev/cdrom automagically points to the scsi0 device. I'm
guessing that you need to try /dev/scd0 or whatever the first scsi device
is called. (I don't use scsi interfaces on my machines.)
> Is there a way to mount /dev/hda1 and /dev/cdrom without an fstab
> entry? If not, what is the syntax of the fstab entry I should
> add?
Unless there is some new bug in the base system (which I doubt), you
should be able to mount /dev/hda1 with the following command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
Of course, if you failed to install the vfat module or at least the msdos
filesystem module, then you're going to have a problem.
Thanks. Syrus.
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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> UCSD Physics Dept.
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