CDRW and cdrecord -scanbus

dai · 08-26-2002, 03:14 AM

Okay tried all of above still cannot get my cd-rw to work

whenever I try cdrecord -scanbus I still get the following error: -

Cdrecord 1.11a24 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.

I am logged in as root. the Scsi-ide module is loaded and I access my CD-RW from hdc at the moment.

MasterC · 08-26-2002, 03:26 AM

So are you now booting with LILO or boot disk? If Lilo, what does your 'append' line look like?

dai · 08-26-2002, 03:53 AM

Ok Sorted it, I created a new lilo boot floppy in expert mode added line: -

hdc=ide-scsi

set Lilo to pick up my Slack / partition and my XP partiton

all I want to do now is instead of seeing Lilo 22.12 for 30 seconds Id like to be able to see the boot loader screen with the choice of O/S to boot.

Any ideas how?????

Also do you think its safe to install lilo to the MBR (using liloconfig) over the NT boot loader?????????

MasterC · 08-26-2002, 04:07 AM

Yes, I do think it is safe.

You press Shift when it says "Lilo 22.12" and you get the menu.

dai · 08-27-2002, 03:43 AM

I was just wondering if you can avoid pressing Ctrl to switch to the menu and instead have it appear automatically?????