Gentoo Archives: gentoo-laptop

From: Jaroslav Sladek <jaroslav.sladek@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o, henri.magnin@××××.net
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:26:23
Message-Id: fa2c21bf041022151936ca4353@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop by Henri Magnin
1 On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:29:03 +0200, Henri Magnin <henri.magnin@××××.net> wrote:
2 > Hi
3 >
4 > I recently purchased an Asus M6 (Centrino 1.6GHz), and did not want to bother
5 > anymore with the Windoze Family stuff.
6 >
7 > I wanted to install a modular Linux, which I could master and upgrade as I
8 > like.
9 > I earlier tried muliple other distributions (Aurox, Mandrake), but I did no
10 > longer expect to have any "straightforward" or "magic" install which was too
11 > tricky to update in future.
12 >
13 > I downloaded Gentoo 2004.2, started from stage3 (in a first trial), and
14 > compiled a 2.6.7 kernel.
15 >
16 > All was Ok, I even compiled X11 and kde and ati_drivers, to try employ at
17 > best my Radeon 9700 graphics card.
18 >
19 > My concern is about the CD-Rom on my own (very new) linux install.
20 > When booting from the install boot CD-Rom, I have a /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 device.
21 >
22 > But in the /dev of my hard-disk install, there is no such entry. So when I
23 > chroot to it, I can no more see the CD-Rom device.
24
25 You mean when you chroot to your harddisk after booting from CD?
26 That's not a big deal, since gentoo uses devfs (or udev) which gets
27 initialized during boot up sequence and actually creates all needed
28 devices in /dev of your root filesystem.
29
30 But if I misunderstood you and you're not seeing you CD rom device in
31 /dev of your harddisk AFTER you booted your new kernel, then you
32 probably forget something in kernel config. Most likely, you should
33 have option "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support" checked under Device
34 drivers->IDE/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support menu.
35
36 Jaroslav Sladek
37
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop Michael Rutledge <michael4447@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop Henri Magnin <henri.magnin@××××.net>