Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test1: some modules refuse to autoload | Date | 23 Jul 2003 20:58:45 GMT |
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In article <20030717215139.GA19877@glitch.localdomain>, Greg Norris <haphazard@kc.rr.com> wrote:
| I'm currently running Debian sid, with module-init-tools 0.9.13-pre. | I've defined the alias "block-major-22 ide-cd", and verified that both | "modprobe -nv block-major-22" and "modprobe -nv ide-cd" give the | expected results. When I try to mount a CD, however, I get the message | "/dev/hdc not a valid block device". Browsing the system logfiles, I | don't see any indication that a module load was even attempted. | Everything works fine if I load the ide-cd module manually first.
Is hdd set to anything special? And is hdc set to cdrom? If not, try an explicit "hdc=cdrom" on the boot line. I have had to do this on several systems, in spite of dmesg telling me the kernel knows that it's a CD. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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