Just thought I would throw in my 2 cents (from one newbie to another)..I'm running redhat 9 on my system using two hard drives and two cdroms with the 2nd cdrom drive being a cdrw(hdd).My linux is installed on the slave hard drive. I attached my fstab and lilo config in the hope it may help woth your problem.It seems most of the linux writer programs insist on having at least one cdrom set up eide-=scsi emulation. Hence the append statement in lilo.
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98 vfat /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
prompt timeout=50 default=linux boot=/dev/hdb1 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message linear image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.9 label=2.4.20-24.9 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-24.9.img read-only append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/" image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 label=linux.bak initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img read-only append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/" other=/dev/hda1 optional label=DOS image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.9 label=linux append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/" read-only initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-24.9.img
