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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Prof. Mladen Pavicic wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've also got a similar problem on IBM ThinkPad 365X
> (PII, 133MHz). I tried all combinations: hdb, hdc, ..
> sda, .... It worked under Win95 (now dismantled -
> only BL3 is on the laptop).

dmesg|less

Look for a line about a CD-ROM driver and it will tell you if it is hdb, 
hdc, sda, etc.  Or watch carefully when it is booting to linux.


> The machine does not see the cdroom while booting
> either and I had to use a special program on a
> floppy which made the machine see the cdrom (I do not
> remember the name of the program).

DOS smart boot manager  (SBM), which I think you can install to hard drive 
instead of using it from floppy disk.

I used that to boot from CD-ROM on my 100MHz Toshiba laptop.

> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 06:57:38AM +1200, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> > > So,could anyone tell me how to find cdrom under /dev?
> >
> > I think this is a QEMU issue (not a BL3 issue).  There is
> > (I think) a command in QEMU for activating HDs and CDroms.
> > BL3 will not be able to see the CDrom until QEMU makes it
> > available.
> > Then you will need to do the BL3 insmods for the CDrom
> > (see /etc/rc) and then mount the CDrom.
>
> Could you explain to me what is QEMU and how can I
> activate the CDROM with the help of it?
> How to "do the BL3 insmods for the CDrom"
> and I do not understand what can I see in /etc/rc
>
> Could you please help me?
>
> Thanks, Harry.
>
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