On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, John Foster wrote: > Antonio Alberto Lobato wrote: > > Detail: my CDROM reader is very old. It`s a Creative SB 2x (Panassonic). > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > When the rescue disk is loading, does the boot kernel find the cdrom? It > should show up if the bios is finding it. If so then you should be able > to mount the cdrom as /dev/hdc for this purpose (providing you only have > 1 hard disk).
What makes you think that a "very old" Creative (Panasonic) 2x CD-ROM is going to be IDE? Isn't /dev/sbpcd a better bet? I would try doing an lsmod, and checking to make sure that the sbpcd module is loaded. If not, try "modprobe sbpcd". -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]