Re: No cdrom device
On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:37:15 PM Bill Marcum wrote:
> In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> > lshw output in my case has no *cdrom entry at all. I rebooted, opened
> > the tray manually, inserted a Knoppix disk and set the BIOS to boot off
> > the cdrom drive. No luck - booted from the hard drive.
>
> That sounds like a hardware problem with the cdrom drive.
No, it wasn't a hardware problem. After much travail with udev, modprobe,
interrupts, etc. and leariing more about dmesg output than I care to know, I
thought - well, no sr0? Then make one!
touch /dev/sr0
chown root:disk /dev/sr0
chmod 660 /dev/sr0
And that was that. Sometimes the simplest, most obvious solution is the one
that eludes us the most.
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