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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1: some modules refuse to autoload
Date: 23 Jul 2003 20:58:45 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfmsu5$l2k$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030717215139.GA19877@glitch.localdomain

In article <20030717215139.GA19877@glitch.localdomain>,
Greg Norris  <haphazard@kc.rr.com> wrote:

| I'm currently running Debian sid, with module-init-tools 0.9.13-pre.
| I've defined the alias "block-major-22 ide-cd", and verified that both
| "modprobe -nv block-major-22" and "modprobe -nv ide-cd" give the
| expected results.  When I try to mount a CD, however, I get the message
| "/dev/hdc not a valid block device".  Browsing the system logfiles, I
| don't see any indication that a module load was even attempted.
| Everything works fine if I load the ide-cd module manually first.

Is hdd set to anything special? And is hdc set to cdrom? If not, try an
explicit "hdc=cdrom" on the boot line. I have had to do this on several
systems, in spite of dmesg telling me the kernel knows that it's a CD.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-23 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-17 21:51 2.6.0-test1: some modules refuse to autoload Greg Norris
2003-07-23 20:58 ` bill davidsen [this message]
2003-07-24  1:16   ` Greg Norris

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