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dansoccer1010
03-14-2003, 02:33 PM
Well, my Linux is installed and working, thank god. My problem is, i set up scsi emulation for my cd burner and my dvd drive. The cd burner is the master and the dvd is the slave. I know that i have to add that into the /boot/grub/grub.conf file, but im not exactly sure exactly how it should be written, so if anyone can post back how it should look, that would be great. Here is what my /boot/grub/grub.conf file looks like:
default 0
timeout 5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda4
Thanks in advance
Originally posted by dansoccer1010
default 0
timeout 5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda4 ( this is where i think i need to put in the cdrom drives, but what should i type???)
Thanks in advance
root=/dev/hda4 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
(assuming those are the correct ide names for your cdrom and burner)
mdwatts
03-14-2003, 02:38 PM
As I added to your example... :)
dansoccer1010
03-14-2003, 03:31 PM
how can i figure out what the correct names for my dvd rom and burner are?
Linux has a standard naming convention for IDE devices, be they hard drives, CD players/burners, Zip drives, etc.:
hda- First (Master) device on the Primary IDE channel
hdb- Second (Slave) device on the Primary IDE channel
hdc- First (Master) device on the Secondary IDE channel
hdd- Second (Slave) device on the Secondary IDE channel
In your /dev directory you should see entries such as "cdrom", "cdrom1", etc. Each of those entries is usually a symlink (shortcut) to the actual /dev/hdx device. To find out which IDE device a particular shortcut points to, open a terminal window and type the following (using "/dev/cdrom" as an example):
ls -l /dev/cdrom
The result should look something like this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 3 05:04 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
indicating that when Linux refers to "cdrom", it means hdc, the Secondary Master IDE device.
:)