on 7/1/00 6:38 PM, Mike Hicks at hick0088 at tc.umn.edu wrote: > Lord Xoi wrote: >> >>> should that be something like `modprobe ide-cdrom' instead? I guess you >>> should just look for the correct module by running >> >> modprobe cdrom >> >> modprobe : Can't locate module cdrom >> >> modprobe ide-crom >> >> modprobe : Can't locate module ide-cdrom > > oops, my mistake.. perhaps you need to try `modprobe ide-cd' > same response with that as well. >>>> Are you sure your cdrom is hdc? >>> >>> this can be determined by looking at the boot logs, BTW. Try running >>> `dmesg', or looking in the /var/log/dmesg or /var/log/messages files. >> >> This is my messages file: > [snip messages] > > Hmm, that looked very strange.. I didn't see (m)any ordinary boot > messages. Perhaps all of that stuff got dumped into /var/log/dmesg. > Either that, or run `dmesg' just after you boot.. > > In the boot messages, you should see something similar to this: > > hdd: [model name], ATAPI CDROM drive > . > . > . > hdd: hdd: ATAPI CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache > > ...if it's an ordinary IDE drive, at least.. > I don't see anything like that. here is the output from the 'dmesg' --- Linux version 2.2.14 (root at Laptop.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Sat Mar 25 00:46:59 GMT 2000 Detected 434324331 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 865.08 BogoMIPS Memory: 62276k/65472k available (1428k kernel code, 412k reserved, 968k data, 68k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9b6 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.12) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size loop: registered device at major 7 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 ide: Assuming 40MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10e0-0x10e7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10e8-0x10ef, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: ST36421A, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: ST36421A, 6150MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 LVM version 0.8e by Heinz Mauelshagen (4/1/2000) lvm -- Driver successfully initialized md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 linear personality registered raid0 personality registered raid1 personality registered raid5 personality registered scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing........................done. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=1 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k freed Adding Swap: 136544k swap-space (priority -1) Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.11 kernel build: 2.2.14 #1 Sat Mar 25 00:46:59 GMT 2000 options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfdf50 00:0d.0 -> irq 5 00:0d.1 -> irq 5 Intel PCIC probe: TI 1225 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:0d, mem 0x68000000 host opts [0]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 5] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34] host opts [1]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 5] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37] ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,10,11,15 PCI status changes cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x290-0x297 0x370-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org