From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14791 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2004 22:26:23 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 22 Oct 2004 22:26:23 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CL7rb-00001Z-Np for arch-gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:26:23 +0000 Received: (qmail 13391 invoked by uid 89); 22 Oct 2004 22:26:22 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-laptop-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14096 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2004 22:26:22 +0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=ZvLND42x+4vK98wBY59DJj3qd4obY4+8LEp/DoGmmFrItEMFz18OIcVL5Kqm2SQQ/B7I9ZCrhOeegDTah8l0TCCfqBeNMufSicjDIM6i4EaU/WIzwxd1yWx+Zwp/t5o4k7CZOaKXOWz81T9R8mBhwbY9oV9dIkpIABZbMCkCdlA= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:19:08 +0200 From: Jaroslav Sladek Reply-To: Jaroslav Sladek To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org, henri.magnin@fnac.net In-Reply-To: <20041022215117.6933914BF28@huva.hittite.isp.9tel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041022215117.6933914BF28@huva.hittite.isp.9tel.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop X-Archives-Salt: 9306da8c-21d0-408a-85f5-a968872d32e8 X-Archives-Hash: 56ca7001d4a63ae43e0637842b889777 On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:29:03 +0200, Henri Magnin wrote: > Hi > > I recently purchased an Asus M6 (Centrino 1.6GHz), and did not want to bother > anymore with the Windoze Family stuff. > > I wanted to install a modular Linux, which I could master and upgrade as I > like. > I earlier tried muliple other distributions (Aurox, Mandrake), but I did no > longer expect to have any "straightforward" or "magic" install which was too > tricky to update in future. > > I downloaded Gentoo 2004.2, started from stage3 (in a first trial), and > compiled a 2.6.7 kernel. > > All was Ok, I even compiled X11 and kde and ati_drivers, to try employ at > best my Radeon 9700 graphics card. > > My concern is about the CD-Rom on my own (very new) linux install. > When booting from the install boot CD-Rom, I have a /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 device. > > But in the /dev of my hard-disk install, there is no such entry. So when I > chroot to it, I can no more see the CD-Rom device. You mean when you chroot to your harddisk after booting from CD? That's not a big deal, since gentoo uses devfs (or udev) which gets initialized during boot up sequence and actually creates all needed devices in /dev of your root filesystem. But if I misunderstood you and you're not seeing you CD rom device in /dev of your harddisk AFTER you booted your new kernel, then you probably forget something in kernel config. Most likely, you should have option "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support" checked under Device drivers->IDE/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support menu. Jaroslav Sladek -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list