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My understanding is that the 1.1.86 kernel was the first to support the CDU-55E.  I used
the 1.1.90 kernel.  The first twist is in the make config procedure.  Be sure to answer
"y" to the questions, "Include new IDE driver for secondary i/f support?" and "Include
support for IDE/ATAPI CDROMS?"

Second twist: after you've made zImage, look for it buried down in the
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot directory.  If you wonder why there is a nice vmlinux image
in the /usr/src/linux directory, where you started (that is too big for LILO), and the
zImage that's small enough to boot is buried like that, well, you're not alone!

The last twist is figuring out where to look for the CD-ROM instructions.  Take a look at
the README.ide file in the /usr/src/linux/drivers/block directory.  Note that you may need
to chmod the referenced MAKEDEV.ide1 script file before running it.  I took the line
        mount /dev/cdrom /cd -t iso9660 -o ro
and put it in a separate mountcd script file.  If you'd prefer to remember the mount command
syntax and flags, feel free!

        Pat

" My understanding is that the 1.1.86 kernel was the first to support the CDU-55E.  I used
" the 1.1.90 kernel.  The first twist is in the make config procedure.  Be sure to answer
" "y" to the questions, "Include new IDE driver for secondary i/f support?" and "Include
" support for IDE/ATAPI CDROMS?"

I'm having the same problem as the previous poster with an NEC MultiSpin
2Vi (model CDR-250).  Through luck, I discovered the above options in the
make config procedure.  However, when I went to boot my new kernel
(1.1.88), I got an infinite loop kind of error.  The same error message
scrolled down my screen while it attempted to read one of my HDs.

I've got two IDE HD's (1st/Master - Western Digital Caviar 420, 2nd/Slave
- Seagate 130) running off the same controller and the CD-ROM, of course,
has its own.

Any clues?

" The last twist is figuring out where to look for the CD-ROM
" instructions.  Take a look at
" the README.ide file in the /usr/src/linux/drivers/block directory.  
" Note that you may need
" to chmod the referenced MAKEDEV.ide1 script file before running it.  I
" took the line "     mount /dev/cdrom /cd -t iso9660 -o ro
" and put it in a separate mountcd script file.  If you'd prefer to
" remember the mount command " syntax and flags, feel free!

Noted and copied!  (don't you love cut and paste between virtual
consoles? <grin>)

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: " My understanding is that the 1.1.86 kernel was the first to support the CDU-55E.  I used
: " the 1.1.90 kernel.  The first twist is in the make config procedure.  Be sure to answer
: " "y" to the questions, "Include new IDE driver for secondary i/f support?" and "Include
: " support for IDE/ATAPI CDROMS?"

Did that.....

: " to chmod the referenced MAKEDEV.ide1 script file before running it.  I
: " took the line "   mount /dev/cdrom /cd -t iso9660 -o ro

OK, so I ran the MAKEDEV.ide1 script, I created the entries in /dev/ and then
I thought I should mount it....The error message I get is the following:
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device

Huh? Why is that? Am I forgeting something?
Is there something I should add to lilo.conf so that it may detect the
drive correctly? (tried what the README.ide1 says, but no go)
Any help would be appreciated...
(I have the infomagic 3-CD set, and I want to install a number of
packages....without having to get out of linux, get to dos, copy
from the CD to the HD, then back to Linux, and.....aarghh!)

Thanks,

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Alexander Sarris         | Everybody wants to go to heaven but
UMCP CS Dept.            |      nobody wants to die.

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