by I apologize if this is a question that has already been asked.
I haven't been keeping up with linux at all for a while now and I've
been running 1.1.53 for over a year. Then suddenly I decided to
upgrade to 2.0. So I bought a slakware cd this weekend and upgraded.
(Off a bookstore shelf, I couldn't get anything newer.)
I haven't been able to get my cdrom (Sony cdu31a/33a) to work. I read
the howtos and stuff. I did 2 things. I built a kernel with the right
driver and iso9660 support (I'm pretty sure that's right) and I added
the line
append="cdu31a=0x1f88,0,PAS"
to my /etc/lilo.conf and ran /sbin/lilo. The docs say that as of
1.1.60 or so, they stop auto-probing the cdu31a/33a. That is why
the append line is needed in lilo.
When I first booted up with this kernel, I get
Unable to Identify CD ROM format
and if I try to mount -t iso9660, I get /dev/cdrom is not a device
file or some such message.
I am a little worried that this is a 2.0.0 kernel as all dot 0 things
are probably not that good yet.
Should the /dev/cdrom point to /dev/sonycd or /dev/cdu31a ? I don't
think that is my problem anyway since I tried it both ways.
The weird thing is, the boot disk that came with the cd works for me.
But I needed a new kernel for my ethernet card.
I would aprreciate any help. Thanks.
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