On Thu, 22 May 2003, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: >>On Thu, 22 May 2003, Matt Wilson wrote: >>>Which manufacturer and model? <snip> >>> >>the laptop is a Sony VAIO R505TL (PCG-6132). The CD-ROM is a Sony Vaio >>PCGA-CD51 (identified in dmesg as CD-224E ATAPI DVD/CD-ROM by kernel >>2.4.18-19.7.x or 2.4.20-13-9). >> Yet more info. (Tell me to stop if this isn't helpful). 1. Red Hat 8.0 will rescue and install on the laptop using the CD-ROM. Then I can run "cardctl ident" and find the following: product info: " ", "NinjaATA-", "V1.0", "AP00" cardctl version 3.1.22 kernel 2.4.18-14BOOT 2. Trying to boot my own 2.4.20-13.9BOOTmod I can see (it scrolls of the screen and there's no serial port to use a null-cable) that the loader tries to insert the ide-cd module but there are unresolved symbol errors. Later the ide-cs module is loaded. During any of the searches for the install tree on the CD-ROM "Alt-F3" shows "trying to mount device hdc" Oisin Feeley
