by Paol » Wed, 09 Jul 1997 04:00:00
Hello,
I installed Open Server 5.0.2 on a SCSI hard disk from the ATAPI cdrom.
Now every time I try to mount a cdrom the mount utility freeze and I
must kill it.
In the Handbook I read that with root filesystem on SCSI hard disk only
other SCSI h.d. can be added: is it true for cdroms too?
Paolo Basenghi
by Jean-Pierre Radle » Wed, 09 Jul 1997 04:00:00
Paolo telecommunicated:
| Hello,
| I installed Open Server 5.0.2 on a SCSI hard disk from the ATAPI cdrom.
| Now every time I try to mount a cdrom the mount utility freeze and I
| must kill it.
Does it help if you use the -r flag, to mount it read-only?
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The lilo installation in Red Hat 3.0.3 does not seem to correctly set up
lilo.conf for booting from the MBR of my SCSI disk. There is an ATAPI
CD-ROM as master on the primary IDE interface (but no other IDE drives),
and a single SCSI host adaptor with a SCSI disk at ID=0.
The installation programs are happy to correctly insert "root=/dev/sda3"
into lilo.conf but insist on "boot=/dev/hda" in spite of there being
only an ATAPI CD-ROM there, no EIDE disks. Naturally, this lilo
configuration does not boot.
Question 3.11 of RedHat-FAQ.txt gives the means to boot and correct the
"boot=/dev/hda" to "boot=/dev/sda" after which everything is fine (and
the installation process is otherwise superbly designed and executed).
However it seems to me that this is a perfectly reasonable configuration
that should install correctly without manual intervention. The
installation programs already know that the "drive" at /dev/hda is a
CD-ROM and so the lilo installation should not count this as a candidate
device for booting.
Have I missed something that would have avoided the problem, or is this
the bug it seems to be?
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