[ILUG] kern 2.4 problems - i think

[Paul Askins]

I used to get this same problem with every kernel upgrade (mostly because I
keep forgetting the solution).  It happened to me because I had an IDE CD
writer which needed to be ide-scsi and I had a normal ide cdrom too.  Check to
see what /dev/cdrom is linked to,
ls -l /dev/cdrom
if it's a link to an ide device (like /dev/hdb or hdc etc) then you shouldn't
need ide-scsi.  If its a link to /dev/scd0 or some such then the drive needs
the ide-scsi module to be installed.  

http://rdb.linux-help.org/idescsi.php3
gives info on what you need to enable for compiling the kernel (2.2.x, but I
presume the same few things apply to 2.4) for ide-scsi support.  It worked fine
for me except I needed to add a couple of lines to /etc/modules to get the
kernel to insert the modules automagiclly.  I added
ide-scsi
cdrom
sr_mod
in that order to the /etc/modules file (Mdk 7.2)

Hope this is of some help,

Paul.

On 14-Feb-01 stee wrote:
 I have recompiled mandrake 7.1 with kernel 2.4.0 and more or less every 
 things ok, except I can no longer mount my CDROM's, it reports "mount: 
 /dev/cdrom/has wrong major or minor number"

 
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Date:   14-Feb-01, 10:25:11

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