Re: Cannot mount cdrom if I use GRUB

[gaspard@zeus.ugent.be]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Marino Fernandez wrote:

> This must be a very simple and dumb problem, but I cannot figure it out.
>
> If I boot with LILO, I can mount my CD/DVD w/o any problem.
> If I boot with GRUB I get an error message that says that my /dev/dvd is not a
> valid block device (same with /dev/cdrom, /dev/sr0, /dev/scd0, even as root).
>
> I have this in fstabs:
> /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
> I have this in lilo.conf:
> append="hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi apm=power-off nomce wheelmouse"
> I have this in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
> # kopt=root=/dev/hda13 ro vga=791 hdc=scsi

did you try hdc=ide-scsi?

wfg,

Gaspard