Thanks for the reply, Steve; unfortunately, this didn't work for me. I still
have the same problem. For the record, I also verified that building and
running under a non-SMP kernel results in the same problem.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Brad
"Steven N. Hirsch" wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Brad Nelson wrote:
> > I'm installing Linux on a dual PIII Asus based system. My initial
> > install was kernel 2.2.12-20smp, the out-of-the-box kernel in RedHat
> > 6.1; my Plextor PX-W8432T IDE CD-R mounts fine in that version.
> >
> > However, after building and installing kernel 2.2.14, I can't get the
> > CD-R(OM) to mount. I've got several symptoms:
>
> Sounds very familiar. I had similar problems with an ASUS P2B-DS dual
> PIII on kernels > 2.2.12. After much thrashing around I discovered that
> placing the CD device in the BIOS boot path (e.g. A --> CDROM --> C) made
> the symptoms disappear. Apparently there is some necessary device (or,
> more likely, IDE chipset) initialization performed during the attempted
> boot. The only downside is that you need to remove bootable CDs before
> trying to boot from hard disk <g>.
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