[TriLUG] Mandrake 8.0->8.1 upgrade problem

[Chris Merrill]

Matt Jezorek said:
> go into /etc/lilo.conf
> and remove devfs=mount from the append line and reboot

I tried this, but it did not help.  

Here is my lilo.conf file
The 1st boot image (label=linux) is what I use during boot, and
it is also the one that I removed the line you mentioned:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label=linux
	root=/dev/hda5
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append=" quiet"
	vga=791
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.6-5mdk
	label=old_linux
	root=/dev/hda5
	append=" quiet"
	vga=791
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.6-5mdk
	label=old1_linux-nonf
	root=/dev/hda5
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.6-5mdk
	label=old2_failsafe
	root=/dev/hda5
	append=" failsafe"
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label=linux-nonfb
	root=/dev/hda5
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append=" devfs=mount"
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label=failsafe
	root=/dev/hda5
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append=" devfs=mount failsafe"
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2secure
	label=linux-2.2
	root=/dev/hda5
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2secure.img
	append=" devfs=mount"
	vga=788
	read-only
other=/dev/fd0
	label=floppy
	unsafe


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Merrill" <cmerrill at nc.rr.com>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:38 AM
> Subject: [TriLUG] Mandrake 8.0->8.1 upgrade problem
>
> > My upgrade did not go as well as I had initially hoped...I can no
> > longer mount my CDROM...this is what I get:
> >
> >   [root at rx8 chris]# mount /mnt/cdrom
> >   mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
> >   [root at rx8 chris]# mount /dev/cdrom
> >   mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
> >
> > So, I went to find if the directory did or did not exist:
> >
> >   [root at rx8 chris]# cd /dev
> >   [root at rx8 dev]# ls -l cd*
> >   lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           16 Oct 30 08:17 cdrom ->
>
> ../cdroms/cdrom0
>
> >   lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           13 Oct 30 03:17 cdrom1 ->
>
> cdroms/cdrom1
>
> >   cdroms:
> >   total 0
> >   lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           33 Dec 31  1969 cdrom1 ->
>
> ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
>
> > Those links look to be intact (although I have no idea what I'm looking
>
> at), so
>
> > I followed the links a little farther and found:
> >
> >   [root at rx8 lun0]# cd /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0
> >   [root at rx8 lun0]# ls -l
> >   total 0
> >   brw-------    1 chris    cdrom     22,   0 Oct 30 08:13 cd
> >
> > Is this what I should see?
> > Anybody know what I should do next?  Obviously, having a working
> > CDROM is kinda important to me...
> >
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