Hi there!
It's awfully quiet in here, I hope this mailing list is still alive...
Anyway, I'm having some problems with devfs during boot. My system is
working fine, that's not the problem. What is, however, is that I want to
make a bootable CD and I was very glad with the existence of
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 and alike. However, my kernel (on a test bootfloppy)
complains that it can't access that device. It does work if I use
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd and alike. But then, I need to know
where my CD is located. Also, on my system, when I want LILO to append a
root statement to the kernel command line, I can't use
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 either. Again, I have to use
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1. In the latter case, I'll survive
(it's still annoying, though) but in the former, I do want it to work. I
guess I could use an initrd image which will use /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, but
that is just extra trouble. I would say that it should work, or else
should be added to the kernel.
My setup: kernel 2.4.19 compiled with devfs set to mount at boot, cdrom
driver and isofs included. LILO append line:
append = "devfs=only root=/dev/cdroms/cdrom0" (which doesn't work)
or, (doesn't work either)
append = "devfs=mount root=/dev/cdroms/cdrom0"
If someone knows how to help me, please let me know!
Thanks in advance,
David Fokkema
(fokkema@xxxxxxxxx)
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