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bakreule
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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:16 pm Post subject: CDROMs not available |
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Hello all,
Excuses if this has been answered elsewhere. I just got finished installing Gentoo on my Athlon XP system. I started from stage 1 and everything seems to work fine until I tried to mount a CDROM, which failed. After checking around a little bit, it seems Gentoo didn't create the block devices for /dev/hdc or hdd, or /dev/cdom & /dev/cdrom1, depending on what it's supposed to be. Also, the /dev/cdroms directory is empty. Am I supposed to create these myself? If so, can I get a quick primer on block device creation?
Here's my info:
Athlon XP 2600+
Asus ATN8X-X
DVD drive - master on 2nd channel
CDR drive - slave on 2nd channel |
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delta407
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: CDROMs not available |
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| bakreule wrote: | | Am I supposed to create these myself? |
Negative. devfs does this for you -- if they're not in /dev, then the kernel doesn't see 'em.
| bakreule wrote: | DVD drive - master on 2nd channel
CDR drive - slave on 2nd channel |
Check the output of `dmesg` to make sure that the kernel saw your second IDE controller on boot.
Also, I think this can happen if you've enabled SCSI emulation but not enabled SCSI CD-ROM support.
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bakreule
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 10:45 am Post subject: Re: CDROMs not available |
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| delta407 wrote: | | Also, I think this can happen if you've enabled SCSI emulation but not enabled SCSI CD-ROM support. |
Yup, that was it. Didn't think I'd need it since I don't have SCSI cdroms. A quick recompile & reboot and everything is fine...
thanks!
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