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

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Thu 30 Dec 04, 12:45 PM, Richard S. Crawford <rscrawford at mossroot.com> said:
> On Thursday 30 December 2004 11:12, Henry House wrote:
> 
> > - modprobe ide-cd
> > - modprobe cdrom
> 
> # modprobe ide-cd
> modprobe: not found
 
Try insmod.  Modprobe is a fancy schmancy front end to insmod.  :)
You have to get the dependencies right, though.

   insmod /lib/modules/path/to/cdrom.o
   insmod /lib/modules/path/to/ide-cd.o

or

   insmod /lib/modules/path/to/ide-cd.o
   insmod /lib/modules/path/to/cdrom.o

Pete

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