Re: [linuxdc-dev]GD-ROM: Got larger result

[Robert L. <rm...@te...>]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 22:05, Michael Grig wrote:
> "GD-ROM: Got larger result"
> 
> That's what I am getting when trying to boot off the gdrom.
> And it stops after that, inspite the error aparently not being fatal:
> disconnecting and reconnecting maple devices still registers.
> 
> Could it be because I don't have a /dev/gdrom device?
> But I do have devfs and devfs mount on boot, so I figured it should
> take care of that...
> 
> Anyway, how would I go about debuging it further?
> I stared at the gdrom driver for a while, but I doesn't really
> make much sense to me... 

I've seen this error, same situation as you, and for the life of me I
can _not_ remember what I did to fix it. :-/

I did end up adding boot support for the gdrom, though, so that is the
first step.  If you aren't using a recent (past week or so) CVS dump,
apply the attached patch.

Make sure ISO-9660 fs support is compiled into your kernel.

Make sure you pass `root=/dev/gdrom ro' to the kernel command-line.

Having /dev/gdrom exist doesn't actually matter, the devices are looked
up in a table and have nothing to do with /dev or devfs.

See where this leads us ...

	Robert Love