Newbie Gone Mad......
 

I'm Running Redhat 7.3 Valhalla, Once my friend turned me on to Linux and set me all up, I can not stay away from it. I Have to learn this!! I have been disabled from a work injury and the challenge to learn this has kept me alive.

Well for the live of me i have not been able to use my main cdrom (ide), I have read and probed and I have surfed the net and read some more, even posted on top of it all. I also have a external cd burner (phillips) that works he must have set up scsi emulation on this on right ? it is now seen as dev/sg0 where my main rom is still dev/hdc.

I have stumbled on to a program called linux kernal configurator, and was looking around and found out that he never turned on scsi emulation!!!!!! Waaaaaaaa.....is it to late? how do i save it? do I just click on it till I get a check mark and save it? Well I guess I'm saying what next?

I told my friend about what the problem was and he said "if you can get the problem fixed let me know so i can do mine also" Wellbutrin take me away....

Welbutrin, ba ha ha ha! Bupropion HCL, cool. Well the kernel configurator is probably to help you make a new kernel. This would be in addition to, not instead of your current kernel. You would need to setup lilo to reflect the new kernel, and then rerun lilo afterwards. I would go into a big schpill here, but this wouldn't help you to actually learn, just plug and play. SO here is what to search for:

kernel recompile

lilo config

scsi emulation

cdrom support

Use each one of those in seperate searches for each part of your situation. Read up on all of it you can, and if you are still having problems, or difficulty understanding, please post back, I/we will gladly help. Here is the link to the search feature for this site:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/search.php

Good luck

just recompile the kernel with scsi support enabled i'ts really not a big story.. just read :
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO-2.html
tell us how goes ith'

Yikes, the module necessary for scsi emulation is already in the default 2.4.18 kernel modules that RH 7.3 shipped with. No need to recompile anything.

Lemme get one thing straight though, you want emulation to work so you can get the IDE cdrom to appear as a scsi device, right? The SCSI external cd-rw should already be able to burn fine...

If you're using GRUB as your bootloader, look in /boot/grub/grub.conf and change the appropriate line to look something like:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi

Then re-run grub so it writes to the MBR again, usually just takes the command:

/sbin/grub


If its LILO, edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the line:

append="hdh=ide-scsi"

right at the top. Then re-run LILO with:

/sbin/lilo

Cheers,

Finegan