--- John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antonio Alberto Lobato wrote: > Detail: my CDROM reader is very > > old. It`s a Creative SB 2x (Panassonic). > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > When the rescue disk is loading, does the boot > kernel find the cdrom? It > should show up if the bios is finding it. If so > then you should be able > to mount the cdrom as /dev/hdc for this purpose > (providing you only have > 1 hard disk).
the old soundblaster cd roms were proprietary and ran off the sound card's controller. Because of this, it doesn't show up in the bios. see the CD ROM HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO.html and see the section 3.3 Proprietary CD-ROM Drives. the soundblaster should use the spbcd kernel driver. I believe the lilo boot parameter sbpcd=<io-address>,<interface-type> should work. see section 4.3 Creating Device Files and Setting Boot Time Parameters in the CD ROM HOWTO. hope this helps... xucaen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
