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Daniel Prosser (prosser@cleo.murdoch.edu.au) wrote:

I managed to solve my own problem - to anyone interested the
problem was not anything to do with boot parameters - I had
bypassed the option to partition my drive which RedHat install let
me do.  The reason I did this was to test if my CD-ROM could be 
detected.  It was detected ok with "linux hdb=cdrom" by the kernel - but 
I was getting an error message "bad fs or superblock" when RedHat
scanned for CD-ROMs.  So today  I partitioned my drive and it all went
well.  Full install.  So the moral i guess is to partition your drive 
before you try the CD-ROM probe!

Daniel.

: Hi all,

:   I just got RedHat 3.0.3 (blah i needed it for cheap Metro-X ;)
:   I am trying to my CD-ROM drive detected at boot up here is
:   the info (as much info as possible follows ;):

:   Creative 8x CD-ROM connected to SB32 i/f which supposedly
:   (according to my DOS device driver) emulates primary slave

:   Unit 0, Slave, ATAPI, I/O address 0x01f0 the driver says

:   I tried forcing it with "linux hdb=cdrom" also hda for luck
:   and it detects the CD-ROM as:

:   hdb: CD820E.1v1078300, ATAPI, CD-ROM

:   as the kernel boots up.  As my system boots up from reboot
:   it doesn't detect ANY ide devices (I have SCSI hdd) so I
:   guess the SB32 is doing something weird to make it look
:   like a CD-ROM is on the slave of primary controller but
:   Linux can't see what it's doing :) -- I've got no clue!

:   Redhat sent me a cut+paste response which was less than
:   useful telling me try things which I've already tried :-)
:   i.e., I told them i tried "linux hdb=cdrom" and I told
:   them the CD-ROM was on "hdb" - so they told me to try
:   "linux hdb=cdrom" and switching the CD-ROM jumper to
:   make it hdb - GLAD TO SEE THEY READ MY MESSAGE!

:   BTW: using 2940.ker image for my SCSI card - I got the
:   "updated" one from RedHat and put it on my boot disk
:   and it proceeded to hang so I'm just using the standard
:   one which detects my CD-ROM anyway but it can't be
:   mounted.  i.e.,

:   It says something like "Bad fs or superblock" when I
:   try to mount the thing! :)

:   Can anyone please help out?

: Daniel.

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: Daniel Prosser - system operator, cleo and carmen 
: Phone: +61 9 360 6840
: Email: prosser@cleo.murdoch.edu.au

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Daniel Prosser - system operator, cleo and carmen 
Phone: +61 9 360 6840
Email: prosser@cleo.murdoch.edu.au