Hello everybody,
Thanks you all for the help on this subject I got -
unfortunately the cdrom drive is still not working
properly :-(
When I say :
mount /cdrom
I get the error message:
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
When I do follow the lines of section 2.1 (Quickstart)
of /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO, and I
use the given insmod commands, the mounting does work
(as /dev/scd0 is redefined by the scsi emulation)
The section after that says: There are several ways
to load the modules next time you start up your
Linux system:
(1) Put the relevant insmod command into the
startup sequence
(a shell script named rc.local or
equivalent).
(2a) Run kerneld or kmod and
(2b) configure them in /etc/modules.conf (to be
more precise,
you configure the utility modprobe, which
is called by the daemons)
"
However - I can't find the rc.local and the kerneld
and kmod don't seem to be there either (apt-cache
doesn't find much of it)
As you recommended, I tried editing on my
configuration files as follows.
In the /etc/modutilis/alias I added these lines:
#start custom addons
options ide-cd ignore=hdc # tell the
ide-cd module to ignore hdc
alias scd0 sr_mod # load
sr_mod upon access of scd0
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe imm #
uncomment for some ZIP drives only
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # load
ide-scsi before sg
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load
ide-scsi before sr_mod
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load
ide-cd before ide-scsi
# end custom addons
And I added the modules to /etc/modules - and set all
the relevant modules next to each other:
scsi_mod
sg
sr_mod
loop
iso9660
ide-scsi
still, the cd won't run unless I do the insmod on the
modules manually ...
During boot time I get error messages like
failed insmod sr_mod
but I can't include them as I can't find where they
are stored.
Can anybody point out to me where I could find these
error messages - they don't show up in
/var/log/kern.log
Can you tell me how I can find out why the modules
aren't loaded during boot time?
Thanks for your help,
Joris
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