Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

[Jonathan Opperman <jonoinsa@gmail.com>]

On 29 Aug 2005, at 3:50 PM, marco_elen wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:09:51 +0200, Jonathan Opperman wrote:
> > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:45 +0100,  Clive Menzies wrote:
> > >
> > > > Your CD rom is normally /dev/hdc ?
> > >
> > > When I use the old kernel, the command
> > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom
> > > works, but not with the new kernel.
> > > May it be a problem in the kernel, in the sense that the new kernel I
> > > installed does not have the support for my CD driver?
> > > How can I discover this?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Marco Ballini
> > [...]
> >
> > What is the output of :
> >
> > "grep CD /var/log/dmesg"
> >
> > and:
> >
> > "cat /etc/fstab"
>
>
> The (relevant) output of
> # cat /etc/fstab
> is:
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
>
> and the file /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/hda
>
> The output of
> # grep CD /var/log/dmesg
> when booting with old kernel (2.2.20) on a rescue diskette (created 
> when installing Woody vanilla) is:
> hda: CD-540E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hda: ATAPI 20x CDROM drive, 128k cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
>
> while I get no output when booting with the new kernel (2.4.27) 
> installed with:
> # aptitude install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp
>
> Best regards,
> Marco Ballini
[...]

Haven't worked on 2.4.x in a while, but try this:

"modprobe ide-cd" AFAICR

then

Any indication that it's loading the module in:

"dmesg"

if yes then try "mount /cdrom"

Ciao
Jonathan

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