grub config

paulsh21 · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 41

hiya everyone...

i'm ver new to the gentoo world (installed last night), and i'm having fun so far. one problem is, i cant get my cdwriter to be detected by cdrecord -scanbus
i think it may be down to my grub setup, i merely wrote:
append="hdc=ide-scs"
in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

another problem is, the vga bootup choice. with lilo, all i had to do was add: vga=773 to my lilo.conf file, and i'd have a different console font when booting up.

so, could anyone guide me in the right direction for getting these things setup correctly with grub? (or can i just go back to lilo, easily?)
many thanks for reading.

Logik · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Posts: 9 Location: Michigan

I have been meaning to write a good howto on this that's straight and to the point, but simply, you need to disable, ide cdroms in the kernel and enable scsi emulation, and scsi cdroms, after that, give the correct permissions, and cdrecord -scanbus should work just fine...
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garo · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 11:49 pm Post subject:

The rule in menu.lst that looks like this:

paulsh21 · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 41

thanks for the replies...both of those problems have gone now

cheers

Curious · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2002 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: CD-Writer setup