Alan Lord wrote:
Anyway, a little while ago (November?) I reported a problem with the
liveCD (I think it was a 6.1-preSomething version) which was that it
failed to boot correctly if the CD was in /dev/hdb rather than
/dev/hda. Basically when the booting script checks for the CD's
existence, it can't find itself when it is in /dev/hdb.
I remember the discussion (I think), but the bug was more of a 'if you
have 2 cdrom drives and some other CD is in the first one and LiveCD in
the second, it would fail to find the LiveCD." Not sure if that was
fixed yet.
I can't confirm your problem. I have tried the LiveCD on a
multiple-cdrom system and besides the above noted bug, it worked. I
just had to remove the CD from the first drive until booted. We need to
take a look at that for sure. But the init program will look for a
/dev/hdb:
<quote>
/* Devices to check for the LFS CD, could scan some stuff in /proc in a later
version */
const char *devices[] =
{
"/dev/hda", "/dev/hdb", "/dev/hdc", "/dev/hdd", "/dev/hde", "/dev/hdf",
"/dev/hdg", "/dev/hdh",
"/dev/sr0", "/dev/sr1", "/dev/sr2", "/dev/sr3", "/dev/sr4", "/dev/sr5",
"/dev/sr6", "/dev/sr7",
NULL,
};
</quote>
As you can see, /dev/hdb is indeed there and no others have reported
such problems.
Can you tell us about your system? What drives, ide/sata/scsi etc.
Does the init program put out an error message or say thing when it
fails to find the CD?
Thanks.
Justin
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