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Regit Young wrote:
> 
> Try making a link to /dev/cdrom. For a IDE setup:
> Primary master is /dev/hda
> Primary slave is /dev/hdb
> Secendary master is /dev/hdc
> Secondary slave is /dev/hdd
> 
> Say if your CDROM is connected to secondary master, do as root:
> ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
> 
> this will simply create a symbolic link from hdd to cdrom.
> 

Once you do the above symbolic link, the mount command becomes:

mount -tiso9660 -oro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

as before in the old days of sound blaster cdroms, since /dev/cdrom
now points to /dev/hdc, (the Secondary IDE controller master in this
example).

> The ability for booting from CDROM, from my understanding, is
> always MB dependent and independent to OSes. As to the startup
> error log (I assume that you are mounting the CDROM at boot),
> it will be gone once the link is created or you may simply
> edit /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/hdx     /mnt/cdrom      iso9660 defaults,ro    0 0
> 
> Again /dev/hdx have to be changed to reflect your physical setup...ie.
> slave/master, primary/secondary.
> 

Once you have done the above symbolic link, the /etc/fstab
entry could be written as in the old days:

/dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom      iso9660 defaults,ro    0 0

Thanks for the additional info Regit.

Dale Woodside
mailto:dale@physics.mq.edu.au