a.) make oldconfig solves most of the problems when updating your kernel b.) if the DVD drive is IDE, you will most likely need that IDE/ATAPI support, iirc
Cheers Kad On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Christoph Schrauth < schrauth-christ...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Sunday 04 October 2009 16:46:44 Stroller wrote: > > > > On 4 Oct 2009, at 14:30, Christoph Schrauth wrote: > > > ... > > > after i updated my kernel to version 2.6.31-r1 (gentoo-sources) > > > there is no device /dev/dvd. > > > Before updating the kernel there was a device /dev/dvd linked to / > > > dev/sr0. > > > > > > You don't state where there is any longer a /dev/sr0. > > > > Can't you just `mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvdrom` ? > > > > Stroller. > > > > > > No i can't 'mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvdrom' because there is no device > /dev/sr0 > > # mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd > mount: Es wurde kein Dateisystemtyp für /dev/sr0 angegeben > Werde alle Dateisystemtypen probieren, die in /etc/filesystems oder > /proc/filesystems aufgelistet sind > Versuche # > Versuche #vfat > Versuche msdos > mount: Gerätedatei /dev/sr0 existiert nicht > > Sorry for the german output. Finally it says /dev/sr0 is not existing! > > > Christoph > >