[vox-tech] Accessing cdrom from Tom's Root Boot

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Thu 30 Dec 04,  1:03 PM, Richard S. Crawford <rscrawford at mossroot.com> said:
> 
> # dmesg | egrep '^hd[a-z]'
> hda: WDC AC23200L, ATA DISK drive
> hda: WDC AC23200L, 2098MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=787/128/63
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
> 
> Apparently the CD-ROM drive is *not* being detected during boot, even though 
> I've got the BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM drive, and it spins up during 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh, oops.  Let me see if I have this straight.  You booted the operating
system off the cdrom drive.  In other words, the kernel was read off a CD,
and still, the cdrom drive "isn't detected"?

Pete

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