Steve Lord wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I can not mount the ide cdrom after the installtion with the xfs-test5 =
> > install cdrom,
> > I can not find any device in the /dev for the cdrom.....
> >
> > How can I make a device for the cdrom ????
> >
> > /Mike
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> I bet devfs is mounted - which will mean devices not being present unless
> the driver is in the kernel. Also the ide-cdrom is probably a module in
> this kernel. Try doing a modprobe ide-cd. Your cdrom will show up as
> /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 (or something like that).
>
> I was going to say you should upgrade to the latest RPMS, however, if you
> are using images from this directory
>
> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/PreRelease-0.9
>
> you are already doing so (the test-5 confused me).
>
> If you rebuild the kernel without devfs then things will go back to
> how you expect them to be - I would also build into the kernel all
> the components you use regularly - ide/scsi drivers, xfs, iso9660
> etc and do away with the initial ramdisk. It will boot much faster.
>
> Steve
ya thats normal with devfs ...
with the beta iso's everything is configured as a module.
you have to insmod cdrom module, then ide-cd ... then it works ...
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