Help! the newbie

[Shizznik McRyybe]

Ok, so i'm new to the world of linux and Red Hat.


But I feel confident that I can get this thing to work.

I installed RH8.0 and everything seems to be working smoothly
However, something is wrong with my cdrw drive.
I have a yamaha crw2200ez... When I load a Cd into it to read or write to it spins up and starts reading for a minute then Linux freezes. No Mouse movement nothing. On my keyboard the Caps lock and Scroll lock lights are blinking but that's about it. Then I reset and that's the end of it.

I have been fearful to try again.

Any suggestions.

Shizznik.

[majorwoo]

check your /etc/grub.conf (or /etc/lilo.conf if you used LILO)


title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img


something like that (grub.conf) the part at the end (hdc=ide-scsi) are telling linux to emulate scsi for that device, which it may not support - try removing that part and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Ok But I didn't use GRUB or LILO

Where else should I or could I look.

I looked under etc/fstab and didn't see anything that said scsi


Shizznik

[majorwoo]

no you tell it scsi to emulate it for burners and what not.

you didnt install a boot laoder, how do you boot your machine? However you boot it you are passing it some options

[Shizznik McRyybe]

I'm using a bootfloppy to boot into the system cause I'm also running Windows2000 on the main partition. If I need to edit the boot floppy are there more than one file containing the SCSI emulation. I just now found this:

. kernal vmlinuz
. initrd=initrd=img hdc=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda3

I'm guessing that is the file I need to edit? Correct?

Then if that is neccesary, What files should I add or change if I need to create a new boot disk? Or is that answer somewhere I haven't sen yet?

Thanks for any help you can give m.

[Shizznik McRyybe]

MAJORWOO THANK YOU THANK YOU.

You have no idea what kind of headache this has been. Thank you very much for your informatio. So far so good I have been able to mount cd with out problem.

only mounted in KDE so far cause I don't know what MAGICDEV will do with them but hey it works.

It was the "hdc=ide-scsi" on my boot disk thankfully it still works.


Thank you again.

Shizznik