CDROM and eth0 not detected on reboot

Ted Ozolins ted1
Mon May 17 11:49:56 PDT 2004


Joel Hammer wrote:
> Well, I am not in lindows right now, so I cannot give you the exact
> error. (It is amazing how useless a computer becomes when it can't be
> networked), but:
> 
> The bios finds it and XP finds it.
> When I put in a cd, the automounter doesn't do anything, whereas before
> it would automatically mount it. (Hate that stuff.) When I try to mount
> it with mount /dev/cdrom1, which is in fstab, it returns no such device
> or some such.
> 
> Joel

does /dev/cdrom1 exist? If you are running devfs and have upgraded 
lindows, did it over-write /etc/devfsd.conf. If you are using devfs look 
and see if the line to use oldcompat for cdroms isn't hashed out.

As always, just a thought
-- 
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.



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