On Sunday 26 January 2003 08:05 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday January 25 2003 07:16 pm, Charlie wrote:
Hi;
I've been fighting with beta2 for so long I think I may have gone
into terminal brainf@rt mode. I finally have it recognizing the
cdrom, the cdrw and the floppy at boot (no mount point errors) but
I can't for the life of me remember how to leave supermount enabled
and still have a user accessible removable media drive. All three
drives in fact.
I have managed to mount the cdrom manually with the install disks
inserted; which is weird since supermount is supposed to be on.
Some of my backup data files are hangovers on CD-R from when I
still dual booted Windows and I can't make the drive read them.
Images saved from the past, a few directories of MP3s, etc.
That may be a beta problem but I won't know unless I can get
consistent drive performance otherwise. I'll need a peak at
someone's fstab (working supermount) to stimulate the gray matter
in order to complete the job. If it's a beta bug I'll be able to
find what so I can make a bug report.
There's already a bug report and a fix
Can anybody throw an old dog a bone? Thanks.
It's a kernel deal, and a deficiency in the beta's configuration
(so far). The 2.4.21 kernels setup the CD drives as scsi, both
CD-RW's and cdroms. In my case then both were unavailable for
reading, with or without supermount, tho I could still burn CDr's.
The fix is quite easy. For example, my burner is hdd and my Cdrom is
hdc, and this is my lilo.conf line,
append= devfs=mount hdc=ide-cd hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet
.^^
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21pre3-2mdk
label=2.4.21-2
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
optional
vga=normal
append= devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21pre3-2mdk.img
That's the LILO stanza for the latest cooker kernel I'm running at the moment
Tom. The ide-scsi issue was the first thing I noticed when I finally got
beta2 running and connected to the internet. I had the hdc=ide-cd in the
append line on the pre3-1 kernel as well after Pixel posted it on the cooker
list. The trouble is that the previous kernel had screwed up my fstab during
install that I kept getting No mount point errors for both CD drives and
the floppy. I think I finally have it corrected enough now to use the disk
drives but even with supermount in the removable media line drives in fstab
it's necessary to manually mount them so that I can use them. Even then a
couple of old back up CD-Rs that have images, mp3s, and other files that were
saved from my Windows days aren't read. They were always read in previous
releases of Mandrake. I suppose I should have copied them to hard disk drive
before playing with a beta again but I just never expected not to be able to
read them.
Where's KwikDisk when ya need it, eh? ;-)
Adding hdc=ide-cd, the Cdrom is now accesible, and I can use my
burner for reading also. 'supermount -i enable mount-a' got it all
goin again with supermount. Which, BTW, is greatly improved (fast!)
with 2.4.21. BTW, check cdrecord -scanbus as your CD-RW will likely
be moved. Mine was from 0,1,0 to 0,0,0 with this fix.
It moved mine from the 0,3,0 it was under 9.0 to the 0,0,0 it was under 8.2
and previous releases as well. Too weird. But it is a beta. The first beta
had my CD-ROM as 0,1,0 and the CD-RW as 0,2,0. That was the same in beta2
before the new kernel as well.
You really should subscribe to the cooker ML when usin cooker, or
at least frequently check the recent ML archives, if you're not or
don't already. I had been usin the 2.4.19 kernel to fix this
situation till the cdrom/ide issue was discussed, and the fix given
on the cooker list. I reckon it'll be fixed with beta3, which should
be any day now.
The 9.0 2.4.19 and the 2.2 series may be the only recent Mandrake kernels that
I didn't try Tom. (g) I have (installed) the one shipped with beta1, with
beta2, 2.4.20.2mdk-1-1, and the previously mentioned pre3-2. Everything else
that I installed that I use is cooker current as of this morning around 3:00
AM MST.
I've been reading the cooker list for quite some time Tom. Thanks for the
suggestion. I have a feeling I missed something so I'll re-read what was
posted the last few days. I think you're right about beta3, Pixel keeps
talking about it in recent posts.
Maybe those were typos though. :-)
Thanks for taking the time Tom.
Regards;
--
Charlie
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