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Maybe you should take [solved] out of the subject (edit the first message). -rake

Well, that fixed the cdrom. Only time will tell if I've broken anything in the process. It's been fun hanging out and discussing my problem. Thanks for the suggestions. Hopefully, I won't have a reason to come back for a while. :mdk:

Does anyone think it would be worth installing kernel-2.6.11.6mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm? Would it break more than it fixed?

I have successfully installed 10.1 on T30, R40, T40, T41, and T42 - which is fairly new. All of those went without any additional intervention. In the case of the R52, I'd prefer not to give up so easily. After all, everything else is working - well, the PCI express slot probably isn't, but I was only going to use that with Windoze anyway. The 2.6 kernel should still support this, but maybe wrong options were selected by the installer. Maybe a kernel recompile with the right options would fix things. I'm not afraid of a kernel recompile. I already had to load gcc and kernel source just to get the graphics driver installed, so I'm half way there. I googled a similar startup for a system with the same harddrive, and it went like this: I'm getting the ata1 and ata2 on scsi0 and scsi1, but I don't get the CDROM attachment at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0. Doesn't this seem possible to fix? If not, then maybe I could somehow attach only the cdrom at /dev/ide/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd. If anyone knows why I'm doomed before I start, please let me know now :unsure: my dmesg: no other disk info was shown.

If it matters, the harddrive is not scsi, of course. It is ATA. I wonder why it was labeled sda instead of hda. :huh:

I'm able to boot from my linux rescue cd, based on an older 2.4 kernel. It enumerates a device /dev/ide/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd which has major/minor numbers of 22 0. When I go back to Mandrake and try: mknod /dev/hda b 22 0 mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom I get "not a valid block device" Actually I had tried that with 0 0 to 32 0 before it occured to me to try a bootable linux and get the info from there. On the other hand, Mandrake Move 2.0, after loading itself into memory from the cdrom, also says "no CDROM device found" At least it's consistant with the 10.1 installer. Please tell me the solution isn't to use a different distribution.

Harddrake service was already set to run on boot. I commented out sr0 in fstab and rebooted, but nothing new happened. I still don't have a device that mounts. Will it show up as hda? Do I have to create /dev/hda? If you're sure there's no chipset driver that would be required for ide, then maybe it's on the scsi controller? I tried to modprobe ide-scsi once to see if I could mount it as sg0 or sg1, but that didn't work either. Pardon the naive questions, but I don't see how an ATAPI device that even the BIOS can read would be completely inaccessible from linux.

My fstab: /dev/sda3 / ext2 noatime 1 1 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 /dev/sda6 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/win_e ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 hda does not exist in /dev, thus mounting it says that the device does not exist. There are no devices starting with h. There is sda, sda1 through sda6 (my hd partitions), and there's sr0, sr1, sg0, sg1, but none of those will mount [not a valid block device]. There was a CD inserted during these attempts. I ran interactive bootup, and specifically selected hardrake - although I think it runs anyway - harddrake did not find anything new. Supermount? I did not find MCC in any path on my machine, but I don't think it matters until the device exists and can be mounted manually. I was kind of expecting there to be another driver or module that I would need, maybe for the ide bus, but I'll follow any suggestions. -rake

I have an R52 Thinkpad, and by searching this board I was able to get the video driver (dri-i915) plus dependencies installed from the cli and working B) , but the cdrom is still not detected and I don't even know where to start. It is a GCC-4241N. The R52 is dual booting, and windoze has no trouble reading cds in this drive. The hard drive is scsi, so maybe that bus has something to do with the lack of detection. (I downloaded sg_scan, but that only shows the harddrive) There is no /dev/hdc. Linux tried to mount /dev/sr0, but when I do this manually, it says it's not a valid block device. I actually had to use a different usb-cdrom device to install, because after beginning with the Mandrake CD1 through the BIOS, it was unable to find the cdrom on its own. I also can't detect that usb cdrom from mandrake, but I don't care if the built-in is working. Any hints on where to look or what to try would be appreciated. -rake

spinynorman, pbone.net did indeed find it for me. It took me a couple of tried to cofig the mirror, but then carroll.cac.psu.edu came through. It all works like I was originally expecting it to. Thanks, merci, gracias. -rake

Thanks Phantom, [root]# urpmi parted The following packages contain parted: gparted libparted1.6 libparted1.6-devel qtparted I'm glad to know what I should be seeing. I'll keep adding mirrors.

I have added numerous mirrors, but when I search in Control Center for packages with parted in the name or description I only get libparted or a gui front end for parted. Could it be installed already? A find command did not locate it. Anyway, parted-1.6.21-1mdk.src.rpm does exist, and I could download it from my browser and make it, but I want to know why the mandrake tool doesn't work, otherwise I won't be able to trust it for anything in the future. This is a new installation of Mandrake, so there shouldn't be any issues from previous package installs. -rake