Re: CDROM kernel problem

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:57:35 +0100

Jon Mitchell wrote:
> Premount:
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 9 1998 cdrom
>
> Executed:
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom (which is hda) /mnt/cdrom
>
> Postmount:
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 cdrom

This looks like a miscompiled ide-cd or isofs. What compiler are
you using?

> The date might be slightly off, but it was something like that (I'm doing
> this from memory). So I downloaded new kernel source for 2.2.13 applied
> prepatch pre4 to it and changed the options so I said yes to IDE but still
> modularized idecd and isofs. This resulted in no difference in behavior.
> However, at any time I seem able to reboot into the original kernel and
> use the CDROM with no problem.

Nevermind modular / builtin. Should make no difference whatsoever

> Any ideas? I'm currently rebooting with Y to everything and will mail

Could you try gcc-2.7.2.3?

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk


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