Hi Experts! I have a question that I would love to have answered, indeed I have spent more than 20 hours trying to figure out the answer, but...could not answer it. I had posted to this list earlier, but at that time I had not put in the hard work.
Background: I upgraded from MDK 8.0 to 8.1 a few days ago thinking that 8.1 was going to be very good. Hardware Intel Celeron, Intel 810 board, 128M RAM. ATAPI CD-Drive (/dev/hdd), IDE hard disk (/dev/hda). Everything working perfectly on MDK8.0 both with devfsd and without devfsd. Result : Now with MDK 8.1 in place I cannot mount the floppy or the CDROM. When I try mounting it says /dev/fd0 is not a block device. I was able to solve this by appending "nobiospnp" to the kernel boot parameter. The CDROM IA A VERY DIFFERENT STORY. The system hangs when I try mounting the cdrom. To try and solve this problem, I downloaded the latest 2.4.13 kernel (from kernel.org) and recompiled with devfsd, installed devfsd, downloaded a bootscript for devfsd initialization etc, but the problem still remains the same-- no CDROM! I always get a "drive seek error" for /dev/hdd (my CDROM) while booting either with 2.4.8 or 2.4.13 kernel. Interestingly CDROM and FLOPPYT work OK with the 2.4.3 kernel + devfsd + script if I forcibly install (rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.4.3.mdk)but this breaks the tempfs and a couple of other things. Is there a major bug in MDK 8.1 that prevents users from using the CDROM? Is there a fix that can be simply done? Or is one to forcibly install the kernel supplied with MDK 8.0 and then recompile for tempfs support etc. If anyone can show me some clean way of solving the problem (without this forced old kernel install from MDK 8.0 etc)or at least tell me the fixed software to download etc. it would be a great help and I would consider my 20 hours spent on MDK 8.1 as a gain. My e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Arnab **************************************************************************** ********************** This email (including any attachments) is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient/s and may contain material that is CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVATE COMPANY INFORMATION. Any review or reliance by others or copying or distribution or forwarding of any or all of the contents in this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by email and delete all copies; your cooperation in this regard is appreciated. **************************************************************************** **********************
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