Sharing Kernels Revisited

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 11:34:34 PDT 2004


On 7/8/2002 4:41 PM, someone claiming to be Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> A few days ago we talked about sharing a kernel between installs (eg. SuSE
> and COL installed on same system, both running the 2.4.18 kernel included
> in SuSE).
> 
> Now I do have one question...  I was running COLS3.1 with the 2.4.2
> kernel, accessing my IDE DVD drive as /dev/sr0 (or /dev/sr1 - I forget). 
> When I started using the SuSE 2.4.18 kernel and modules, I suddenly have
> to access it using /dev/hdd.  Why?  I am still loading the ide-scsi module
> just like I always have and it is still loading correctly...  I'm not sure
> what the deal is.  Not a big issue at this point, but I was curious if
> anyone had any insight on this one.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
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because ide-cd is loaded before ide-scsi, or ide-cd support is compiled into the kernel?

HTH, 
Tim





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