Shawn,
The best way is for you to update your kernel. BPCK6 support, which is what
you need, was introduced into the kernel as of 2.4.4 (RH 7.3). You have
kernel 2.4.2.
At 04:49 PM 12/17/2003, Shawn Koons wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I gave up on trying to install RH on my old Compaq via the backback, but
>have succeeded in installing RH 7.1 on a IBM thinkpad via said backpack
>cd-rewriter. So far, so good. Now the cd-rom/rewriter cannot be found upon
>booting. Can anyone tell me how I can install via the backpack and now the
>newly installed OS cannot see the backpack? Maybe something on the boot
>install disc that is missing on the installed OS???
>
>Also, could someone help me get the cd-rom/rewriter working?
>
>I have included dmesg (I hope it helps)
>
>Thank you,
>
>Shawn.
>
>Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96
>20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 19:37:14 EDT 2001
>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
>BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved)
>BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved)
>BIOS-e820: 0000000002ed0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
>BIOS-e820: 000000000000f000 @ 0000000002fd0000 (ACPI data)
>BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 0000000002fdf000 (ACPI NVS)
>BIOS-e820: 0000000000020000 @ 00000000fffe0000 (reserved)
>On node 0 totalpages: 12240
>zone(0): 4096 pages.
>zone DMA has max 32 cached pages.
>zone(1): 8144 pages.
>zone Normal has max 63 cached pages.
>zone(2): 0 pages.
>zone HighMem has max 1 cached pages.
>Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305
>BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
>Initializing CPU#0
>Detected 231.777 MHz processor.
>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
>Calibrating delay loop... 462.02 BogoMIPS
>Memory: 45756k/48960k available (1363k kernel code, 2816k reserved, 92k
>data, 232k init, 0k highmem)
>Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
>Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
>Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
>Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
>VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
>CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
>Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
>CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
>CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium MMX stepping 01
>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
>mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
>mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd880, last bus=0
>PCI: Using configuration type 1
>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:01.0
>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:02.0
>PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:03.0
>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:02.1
>Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
>isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
>Initializing RT netlink socket
>apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
>Starting kswapd v1.8
>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
>block: queued sectors max/low 30253kB/10084kB, 128 slots per queue
>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
>PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
>PIIX4: chipset revision 1
>PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>hda: IBM-DTCA-24090, ATA DISK drive
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>hda: 8007552 sectors (4100 MB) w/468KiB Cache, CHS=993/128/63, UDMA(33)
>Partition check:
>hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
>Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
>SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
>ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
>md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
>md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
>autodetecting RAID arrays
>autorun ...
>... autorun DONE.
>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
>IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
>Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed
>Adding Swap: 197528k swap-space (priority -1)
>
>
>
>
>--
>Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion.
>And religion may, in a real sense, be understood as a popular
>misunderstanding of mythology.
>
>Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That
>
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