From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271313AbTGWUvN (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:51:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271316AbTGWUvN (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:51:13 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:19464 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271313AbTGWUvL (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:51:11 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1: some modules refuse to autoload Date: 23 Jul 2003 20:58:45 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20030717215139.GA19877@glitch.localdomain> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1058993925 21588 192.168.12.62 (23 Jul 2003 20:58:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20030717215139.GA19877@glitch.localdomain>, Greg Norris 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 CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.