Re: 'Sysadmin survival CD' Boots but doesn't see my CD drives [OT]

[email protected] wrote:
> Any suggestions what I might be doing wrong?  Is it possible that the
> survival CD will boot from SCSI drives, but then not detect the disk
> in them?

Yeah, that's possible. The system and/or SCSI BIOS typically read a 
floppy image off the CD and make a fake floppy drive for the system to 
boot from. Linux boots from that, goes through its detection, and then 
mounts the root from the CD. If the kernel doesn't detect the hardware, 
you'd get exactly the symptoms you've described.

I'm not familiar with this CD. Are the drivers compiled in or modular?

If they're compiled in and you don't get a message, you probably need to 
hack apart the .iso and floppy image within it, put in a new kernel with 
support, and reburn the CD.

If it's modular, maybe you can work around it by running a "modprobe 
driver" if you have an option for a prompt before it fails. (Check other 
virtual consoles, maybe.)

-- 
Scott Lamb