I have been fighting a simular problem. I've traced mine down to the scsi driver probing for devices during boot-up. If the cdrom is found during bootup, the adding of the module will add sr. Most of the time, this new resc1440.bin doesn't find my cdrom. Once booted Press alt+F2 if you need a new terminal to work in cd /proc cat devices
11 sr should be one of the entries or you're not getting any closer. The software device sr is needed to talk to cdroms. The command `dmesg` ( or `dmsg` I keep forgetting) will show you the scroll that happened during bootup. If your cdrom is not listed then you have the same problem I do. I have an adaptec 2940u scsi pci controller. There is a chance that you don't have the same problem I have had but I have seen 2 other complaints in the last week plus, but no real answers yet. What I am looking for now: 1. an option to give the scsi driver during configuration to extend the timeout of waiting for devices to respond 2. a way to tell the kernel there is a drive it missed and to add it to its lists. Feel free to contact me if there is a chance we can compare notes. Juice --have fun --harm none On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:29:03 +0100, you wrote: >hello, > >when I install the latest version of linux (debian) from a CDROM >eveything works good until it begins with dselect. It ask me for the >source and I tell it CDROM, after >it ask me for "the block device type" and it is imposible to go ahead. I > >try some things like this: > /dev/hdb >but it say that the kernel do not support the iso9660 norm. I do not >understand because it make the all instalation from the CDROM. If I >execute a shell I can't mount the CDROM and it tell me the same thing >about the iso norm even if I mount it with the next command: > mount /dev/hdb -t iso9660 /cdrom >Last year with the same computer I could install an older version of >debian. Now I can't install the same version. The only thing that difers > >from before is that I have install a CDROM writer. >I have a pentium 166MMX. > >Notes: >- I can install the latest version of RED HAT and after I can mount >perfectly the CDROM but I prefer to install the Debian distribution. >- Somebody told me that probably the iso9660 file system is configured >as a module but I couldn't do anything wiyh the insmod command. May be I > >don't do it well. > >Thanks a lot. > >
