Hi,
I was using Slackware 11 with 2.4.33.3 kernel. Then I mounted the DVD rom using "append=hdd=ide-scsi" command in lilo as told in the instruction. R

Recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.17.13. But after kernel upgrade my DVD rom is not being mounted.

How can I solve this problem? IS there any command for automount or something?

Thanks in advance.

What is the error message?

Unfortunately there is no error message.

During boot time, it shows my cdrom as hdc and DVDrom as HDD. But I didn't get hdd in /dev folder.

Also I didn't get sr0 where I mount my DVD in previous kernel as scsi drive.

You don't need ide-scsi with 2.6 kernels. Since the drive is mentioned during boot, are you sure it is not in dev?

can you post your /etc/fstab?

My fstab is-
I tried several options in fstab like mounting as hdd or old sr0 ...but didn't work.


My dmesg is -
And I searched once again in /dev folder for hdd. But it was not there.

So you've got two drives. The first is listed in fstab. The second isn't. If you add this to fstab it should be ok.

/dev/dvd /mnt/dvdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0

Just make sure that /dev/dvd and /mnt/dvdrom actually exist, and create them if they don't. And also make sure /dev/dvd is linked to /dev/hdd.

simcox1>> I guess you didn't read all my problems. The worst part of the problem is- there is no /dev/hdd in /dev folder. All other partitions [ sda, hda, hdc etc.] are there. But not that hdd. So, how can I create and/or mount that hdd??

I dunno, maybe try 'mknod' ?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=540471

(I dunno if this will work or if it is a good idea ... try at your own risk )

After seeing your fstab and reviewing dmesg you have two cd/dvd devices and only one entery in fstab. you will also need a dir. to mount the second device.

here is my fstab: /dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 /mnt/hda8 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/memstick auto user,noauto,rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

dev/cdrom is the first device and dev/sro is the second device.

Hope this helps

Just to be sure: have you kept your hardware exactly as it was just before the upgrade?

I mean: if you have switched either DVD drive or CD drive to another controller, it is possible that you have both drives configured as "slave" (or one as "slave" and the other as "cable select" when the cable selection should assign the other drive a "slave" condition). Just like it happened to me once.

Both Windows and Linux should detect both drives as one, though. But in Windows it can be unclear: to me it showed the media I inserted at each one alone as in drive E: and refused to mount both simultaneously, but no error message to the regular (non-admin users). The "eject" also ejected both trays at once.

This could explain why there isn't a /dev/hdd and the solution would just be plain sure there is only one "master" drive and only one "slave" drive.

If this holds true, after that Slackware should "discover" your /dev/hdd upon next boot.

Nop. I thought about it. I tried eject button and only my CD-rom tray came out. Also I tried to mount in fstab as /dev/hdd or /dev/sr0 etc. but nothing worked.

Since it was newly installed and upgraded into kernel 2.6, so finally I decided to reinstall the system. This time I will not upgrade kernel, but use another kernel [probably 2.6.18 from testing folder of slcakware DVD] in parallel.

Thanks guys for your help.