[Trinux-talk] Re: ISO problem on desktops

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

> The command line greps for "CD-ROM," and on most systems proceeds to
> eliminate all but its "hdc" label.
> On both of my desktop systems, however, the cdrom (hdc) is _not_
> identified as a "CD-ROM," but as a "DVD-ROM."
> 
> Thus the query simply does not find the appropriate device to boot
> from. I haven't tested this (I will in a minute), but a slight
> modification to grep for "-ROM" might well do the trick and allow
> booting on any device with a standard cd-rom or newer dvd-rom.
> 

Thanks, will add it to the linuxrc and release a new initrd.gz but
probably won't burn a new .iso until later this week when I hopefully
release .80rc2 after I fix some of the kernel issues.

-mdf